Commentary: Increasing polarization is behind the erosion of national pride.
I am convinced the reason a majority of young Americans regard patriotism as unimportant is that they see so little evidence of healthy patriotism among the adults running the country.
Why would we expect anything else when leading Democrats condemned Donald Trump for deliberately endangering national security but defended Hilary Clinton’s mishandling of classified documents as a trivial lapse in judgment? This is the challenge of trying to maintain a national identity within a pluralistic society. People have very different values from one another, and their values inform what they envision as a greater good for all.
That is a hard sell. It is especially hard today when so many of our citizens are short-term consequentialists, focused on immediate results and ready to believe nearly any action that obtains those results is justified. This is a recipe for moral failure. Society precedes the individual because it is only in society that we learn the virtues and character traits that allow us to flourish. It is in society that we learn patience, courage, generosity, justice and love.
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