Patriotism

[KEmperor]

Which according to your avatar color is also your political faction.

For examples of very nationalistic governments look at Saddam's Iraq, the Lebanese Falange, and oh, Germany in the late 30s/early 40s...

I'm not arguing that what Germany did was right.  However, you have to admit that nationalism was very effective for one country to steamroll across Europle.  The people were dedicated to the sucess of their country.

If being nationalistic would enable the USA to take over a whole continent, I'd be as anti-nationalistic as I could.

Whole continent.  The USA could take North America with our standing armies for crying out loud.  With a fierce nationalism movement and a healthy investment in nukes the US could take the whole world -being allied with Russia and maybe India, of course.

I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt, and assume you were on crack cocaine when you posted this.

I'm going to have to go with Philip on this one.  Being patriotic does not mean you support global conquest.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I think Preston just proved my point about nationalism.

[Gustaf]

I voted positive. It brings people together and make for functioning societies. In the negative sense, which a lot of people refer to as nationalism, it can be very harmful. This is mostly when it begins to include views about other nations and peoples instead of focusing on simple national pride.