I find most items on your list, though poetic, unrealistic in practice. People are prone to such situational hypocrisy in general, yes, but your examples seem m

I find most items on your list, though poetic, unrealistic in practice. People are prone to such situational hypocrisy in general, yes, but your examples seem mostly like oversimplified rhetoric, with privacy-vs-domestic-security being the only one that approaches being generally representative, in my experience. These perceptions are easy to form though, since we tend to view entire groups at once, so different people acting differently within that group, or speaking more or less loudly at different times, may create the appearance of internal conflict when those different people really make no claims to represent each other, despite being part of the larger whole that we observe. Therefore, these reductions tend to come dangerously close to holier-than-thou territory. I also find the sentiments "support our damn military" and "if you don't think we're the good guys, then move out" to be hostile twists on statements nobody made, and more likely to cultivate opposition to your assertions than to make anybody think twice about them. Totally agree about China though.