Patriotism is a feeling then why political parties use it as a subject of conflict?

Answer 1

By Jingo! I think that it has been called the last refuge of a scoundrel. But that was before the Neocons made it a first refuge.

The Straussian agenda is to play on peoples real feelings as a means of controlling them. The BBC had a great series about it.

Answer 2

the dem's call non-supporters unpatriotic because they dont support the troop recall in Iraq, and their cut-and-run policy...

#1 - it makes you feel unpatriotic when they say that because uninformed people are like, i AM?! ... when really they dont know other sides of the story...
#2 - makes you feel like you are a minority, thus making it considered bandwagon "do what every1 else is doing" propaganda
#3 - makes people they call unpatriotic look satin-like and evil

right now our soldiers are being outnumbered, surprised, and we are often out ammunitioned, taking into consideration the power of rocket propelled grenades and other small explosives.

the overall numbers of terrorists dont exceed our overall numbers of troops on the ground, but many are in places in which terrorists arent in..
for those places with terrorists actively in it, its a pack of coyotes vs. a wandering house pet..

thats why there are casualties (which are low considering this is a war... 250,000 out of our million soldier army have been deployed there over the last 4 years. of that, less then 3,000 US soldiers have died. The news calls a death of 5 soldiers a bloody day, when really.. in a combat-fight.. many more then that die in a single fight... 5 sounds like a lot each day, because it is shown every hour on the hour, every day, and because there are so few soldiers that die, they can focus in on each family itself and provide details of that single soldier and when they do that, it hits closer to home.. making the impact larger. When you hear "100,000 people died in the war last year" you dont get the idea because the number is so unthinkable as if you hear "3 people died in the war today" ... to feel sad and w/e is fine... but to then take that info and apply it and criticize people .. saying things like "so many people have died already and you want to send more to iraq?! you unloyal, unpatriotic a**holes!" is rediculous, because to make a statement like that, you need to focus on the numbers. That happens to be a very low number for a war that has been going on since 2001.

Answer 3

That's called jingoism and it comes handy if they are loosing the game.