I’m Such An Elitist
Posted on July 3, 2008 by andrew
Do six in ten Americans actually wear flag pins themselves? Like, ever?
“As the Fourth of July approaches, six in 10 of those surveyed in a USA Today/Gallup Poll say sporting an American flag pin indicates that a person is patriotic, one of a half-dozen actions that most say reflect a love of country.”
I mean, I live and work in Washington, DC. Most of the blowhards who spend all day talking about the good people in middle America who want to see their leaders wear flag pins also work here, as do the leaders in question, the countless minions of both of the above, and the even more countless non-minions who nonetheless work for the government in some capacity. The only times I have ever seen any of these people wear a flag pin were on the first and fifth anniversaries of the September 11th terrorist attacks. Even then, I only saw a handful of people wearing flag pins; many people were wearing ribbons instead of flags and most were wearing nothing at all to mark the occasion.
So either 6 in ten Americans believe that the incredibly vast majority of their fellow citizens (including themselves) hate America, or I really do live in a bubble of East Coast elitism completely unlike the rest of the country and the rest of the country would be ashamed and horrified to see the nation’s capital.
It’s probably the latter.
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“most were wearing nothing at all”?? Awesome! I totally missed that.
Would a bunch of nude politicos running around town really be “awesome”?
Was Dennis Hastert still in office? Grrrrrrrr!
Also, the poll shows that 6 out of 10 people say that wearing a pin is patriotic. 9.5 out of 10 say that voting is. Luckily, no one does that either.