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Let me sharpen this up for you a bit....
It is not knee-jerk patriotism per se. It is the triumph of emotion over reason which is never a good thing. It is the same effect as parents who will never believe that their child could behave badly and lash out at anyone who says that they have behaved badly. It plays out every day all over this country when some kid who has punched another in the nose gets punished while the punchee who had been goading the puncher for hours gets off scott free. It is a blindness to an underlying principle of the universe, the only thing I actually believe in, cause and effect (aka causality).
The people you rail against are incapable of seeing the causality of action and reaction. And for that reason they are fools.