SANTA MONICA, Calif — About 99% of you won’t share this picture of the American flag, according to a newly published white paper from researchers with the RAND Corporation. The paper presents a gloomy outlook of American patriotism, and while it does acknowledge there were a few people they “knew would share it,” the researchers ended with an appeal to “flood our timeline with the Stars and Stripes.”
“This is truly a remarkable and discouraging finding,” said Dr. Karen Drifter, the paper’s lead research scientist. “It’s pretty sad that most of you won’t share this picture of the American flag even though it also has an emotionally moving silhouette of a soldier on it. Are there any patriots left out there who support the troops? I know I do!”
The paper’s results were met with indignation by many on social media.
