Patriotic celebrations causes kids to become republican

This "study" by two Harvard junior faculty is severely flawed, which is probably why they couldn't get it published in a scientific journal, but published it on the web instead.

First of all, it commits the logical fallcy of suggesting that correlation implies causation. It's only been out for a day, but boy is it going to get ripped apart when the challenges come in.

The study didn’t determine anything of significance and used seriously questionable methodologies – they used rain on the 4th of July as a proxy for participation! What they found is probably that areas that are predominately liberal (like the northeast and northwest) are more likely to have rain in July than areas that are predominately Republican (like the sun belt).

Does anybody seriously think that 8-year-olds watch the 4th celebrations because they are patriotic republicans or because they like to see fireworks. I guarantee that plenty of liberals watch the 4th of July Fireworks in Baton Rouge. The crowd is half black and they are not republicans. :lol:

 

What is a flag burning party? You complain how universities are liberal. Look what happened on campus when someone threatened to burn a flag. You have a vivid imagination. Republicans are no more patriotic than anyone else. Of course, ultra-nationalism and patriotism have been a hallmark of right wing extremists for two hundred years. Ja?

"The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country." -- Hermann Goering, before being sentenced to death at Nuremberg.

You forget how young the military is and that it is 30% minorities. Obama received nearly six times as much contribution money from troops deployed overseas in 2008 than did John McCain. If money talks the troops supported Obama. The brass is more conservative, the rank-and-file less conservative.