So now we know why many Leftists don't like saying the Pledge of Allegiance? - Granite Grok

So now we know why many Leftists don’t like saying the Pledge of Allegiance?

What have we come to as a nation when even the Flag is seen as an instrument of bias?

Just a brief exposure to an image of the American flag shifts voters, even Democrats, to Republican beliefs, attitudes and voting behavior even though most don’t believe it will impact their politics, according to a new two-year study just published in the scholarly Psychological Science.

What’s more, according to three authors from the University Chicago, Cornell University and Hebrew University, the impact had staying power.

"A single exposure to an American flag resulted in a significant increase in participants’ Republican voting intentions, voting behavior, political beliefs, and implicit and explicit attitudes, with some effects lasting 8 months," the study found. "These results constitute the first evidence that nonconscious priming effects from exposure to a national flag can bias the citizenry toward one political party and can have considerable durability."

And this is a bad thing??? We have seen the studies that show a less patriotic feeling towards America as it is from Democrats – is this just one more indication that Republicans are holding more to the philosophy of traditional American values and that somewhere deep inside, Democrats know that….

….but just that they need a bit of prompting to let their inner Patriot out?

(H/T: US News)

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