What could be more bluepilled than worshiping some imaginary construct that only exists to control you?
National pride is for people who have never achieved anything themselves. That's why they get so emotional over some piece of cloth, the nation becomes a substitute self to people with nothing of value in themselves, so they take it as a personal slight when you offend their national pride.
The nation becomes a surrogate family to these people, father, wife and child all rolled into one. It "protects" them, and they feel obliged to dedicate their lives to it.
This is true of both wings of politics, those who want a "strong" nation and those who want a "fair" nation both want a nation. They are uncomfortable without someone lording over them and controlling their day to day lives.
They fear true independence.
All bootlickin and authoritarianism is cuck, you're giving your rights away to a large entity with jobs mostly held by women. How do you even more cucked no matter the ideology of it?