The Olympic Games remind us of the necessity of nationalism

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : But for all the recent Games' myriad woes, they were highly useful in at least one respect: They reminded countless viewers across the world of the importance, indeed the necessity, of nationalism and the indispensable nature of the nation-state as the building block for any just and worthwhile society.
60% : That means the nation-state, and the proliferation of the nation-state, in turn, means the proliferation of nationalism itself.
56% : Left-wing movements in First World nations all across the globe increasingly vie with one another to see who can most quickly and aggressively outsource their citizens' sovereignty to unaccountable (or barely accountable) transnational tribunals, such as the United Nations, the European Union and the World Trade Organization.
55% : Trite globalist paeans aside, what is the Olympics' Opening Ceremony, distinguished as it is by the presence of so many distinct peoples, if not an ode to the nation-state and to nationalism?
48% : We live in a day and age in which nationalism is excoriated as a vestigial outlier from an older, less "enlightened" era.

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