If you hate your government, and you leave to another country in other words, defect. Are you a traitor?

Can’t I just want better? Who has to hate? Can’t I love my country and still want better?

Nope not a traitor. I have the right to hate my country. And if a country doesn't allow for you to hate it, well that's all the more reason to hate it.

No. Many expats still love our country just unhappy with the present state of things. A traitor actively seeks to undermine his country.

Most countries are shit you just don't know enough about the ways they suck like you know your own countries faults.

If you are against HOW the government functions ... and against the basic philosophy the government supports for resource allocation ... then you are a rebel.

If you take illegal shadowy steps to defeat how the government operates ... then rebel rises to traitor.

But if you support a system of governance, where the people determine their own future ... you are a patriot.

Whoever made you feel that way, wants the best for them against your happiness.

If I ever got the chance to travel with my eldest daughter and go to where my daughter was born, I would never think of going back to the corrupted country I come from, and I care less if anyone thinks I am a traitor.

You're not a traitor if you hate your country and the system it uses. You show your patriotism in that case by actively working to make it better. If it's not working for you, and you leave, that's not being a traitor or defecting - that's just emigration.

Now, if you when you leave, you take the government's secrets and give them to someone else or expose them to the world, or do anything else that actively hurts that government, that would be considered being a traitor. But just leaving to live in another country isn't.

No but it always surprises me how many emigrants still feel the need to express their strong opinion on our government and nation as whole despite being gone for 10 or more years and don't plan to come back. If I successfully emigrated I think I would be happy that I am happy and focused on my new country. No, these people, whenever something bad happens, they have to enter discussions all high and mighty bragging how they escaped and how endlessly happy they are.

Excellent question

Not at all. The country of one’s birth is happenstance, and it may or may not be a place one wants to continue to live. You’re not obligated to remain where you’re unhappy. And you’re not a traitor unless, after having committed to a country, you actively work to undermine its government and people.

Show love to the country who supported you 😐 pay taxes there