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You can love someone, care what happens to them, have NO plans

to leave them…and [b]still[/b] be very disappointed in their actions—right ?

So how difficult is it to understand having such feelings for one’s country ?
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Piper · 61-69, F
Right. It is not all difficult to grasp, and those who refer to those who simply criticize actions of or something that is going in their country as not "real" Americans or "traitors" and such?

Those who do that disgust me, especially when they do it based simply on opposing political views and affiliation.
@Piper Thank you. I get really tired of the folks whose go-to is "U.S. love it or leave it" and wonder if that’s always their attitude in every instance.
Piper · 61-69, F
I do too, @bijouxbroussard. Maybe it sickens and angers me more than I should let it, because my father served honorably in the US military for 23 years, and my brother for 5. There are those who would and have denigrated their service to this country, simply because they were registered [b]Democrats[/b].

I wonder about that too, and have noticed that it [i]is[/i] often their attitude in most every instance. Except when [b]they[/b] are outraged about something going on in their country, of course. [b]Then[/b] it's "patriotic".
@Piper So true, isn’t it ?