re: #170 b_sharp

You think we Canucks don’t recognize problems with our own country and wish they could be rectified?

Patriotism becomes a problem when it blinds people to real errors made by their country. If you can acknowledge the negatives, as well as the positives, in the actions taken by your country and praise the leadership for those positives while working toward correcting the negatives then your patriotism is appropriate, but if you refuse to acknowledge the negatives and just increase your drum beating when confronted by those negatives then your patriotism is inappropriate.

I think the US history is FULL of examples, old and new, of us looking at the negatives and taking action to correct them.

Again, the patriotism you see here and from most Americans, is a patriotism born of gratitude and being thankful, not a “rah rah rah we’re number 1”!