Kulturkampf

[Eric Cartman]

This explains a lot about the online left.

I think about this all the time: sometimes I consider getting an American flag for my house, and my wife is worried her lib-brained friends will be genuinely offended. And it's like...do they know they live in America and are Americans?

I'm probably 3 months away from adding a bunch of 1776 rock flag and eagle merch to my wardrobe.

I think both of these statements are circling the same point, which is that its legitimately a shame that 'the left' have fully ceded the concept of patriotism to 'the right'.
Like, you would assume a left leaning individual would take pride in things like being a contributing member of society and paying their taxes, because your country is your society, and you can't have socialism without that sense of pride in your community and doing things for a greater good.

I'd like to think that maybe this happened because patriotism and nationalism are dangerously close, but the depressing truth is I think it's more likely a combination of 'intersectionality' creating tribalism and people deciding their own tiny inherently minority society is the only one that actually counts (and having its own flag!) and the knee jerk response of "I'm for everything those guys aren't!" as ideological stance