re: #251 b_sharp

I would say I’m apatriotic, but that doesn’t mean I hate where I live, nor that I would prefer to live elsewhere, nor that I wouldn’t fight to preserve the culture, ours, that best reflects my value set and allows me to practice it without fear. If I can be labelled patriotic it would be toward the modern western value set.

The left doesn’t like patriotism because it smacks of tribalism with a very narrow and small membership. In all likelihood that is nothing more than an idea built of straw.

Some on the left does not like patriotism for that reason, but there are leftists who simply hate their own country and reject patriotism for that reason.