What's with this whole "blind patriotism" thing?

Why do so many people think it's a necessity to love the country one lives in? Whether it's actually good or not, part of freedom is being free to dislike something and express that dislike. Americans in particular lose their shit when someone dares to say America isn't a perfect utopia. I mean, I live there. The part I live in is nice enough, but we've got some serious flaws. It's fine to love your country, just don't shit on others for not feeling the same way.

*loses all my SW friends for being political*

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basilfawlty89 · 31-35, M

And one more from old man Bakunin:

“There is nothing more absurd and at the same time more harmful, more deadly, for the people than to uphold the fictitious principle of nationalism as the ideal of all the people's aspirations. Nationality is not a universal human principle; it is a historic, local fact. ... We should place human, universal justice above all national interests. The less developed a civilization is, and the less complex the basis of its social life, the stronger the manifestation of natural patriotism.”
— Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin

HannibalAteMeOut · 22-25, F

@basilfawlty89 idol 😍