It is primarily a platform for familial militarism, love of personality cults, classism, pride for national symbolism, origin and founding myths, and Saints.
[1] It was used to explain the totalitarian and authoritarian regimes in the Interwar period, which eventually led to World War II.
[3] The earliest known use of the phrase "blind nationalism" is in the 1908 book Racial Problems in Hungary by British historian Robert William Seton-Watson: Needlessly to say, the attitude of the Magyar Press corresponded to that of the parliamentary Jingoes; and even the Pester Lloyd, which treated the matter with conspicuous moderation, wrote as follows: "We shall say no more of the Hlinkas and the Hodžas.
"[4]According to David Niose, former president of the American Humanist Association: The staggering lack of knowledge, combined with a blind and emotional patriotism, is a cause for disaster.
The result is a proliferation of uninformed American exceptionalism that is akin to a social narcissism, a self-centered sense of importance and superiority that can have dire consequences.