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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Helpinghands · M Best Comment

Its quite bizarre that so many Americans still claim that their country is the “land of the free”. It locks it’s citizens up in jail at a higher rate than any other country, tens of thousands of Americans per year are shot to death and the country doesn’t even have a universal health care service, leaving the poor to beg and scrape and rely on charity health care where they can find it or just suffer ill health in silence if they can’t afford to pay for it. Advanced country? Seriously??

YukikoAmagi

@Helpinghands everyone have their own definition about 'freedom'

Helpinghands · M

@YukikoAmagi yes , very true.

Dshhh · M

@YukikoAmagi @Helpinghands and yeah some peoples "freedom" is only to feel secure, safe inside a safe world