- Mar 6, 2005
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I don't feel like there's anything inherently special or unique about our country. I'm patriotic to the US because I feel that it:
I'm sure there are more things that I consider important and that help command my loyalty to the country, but those are the ones that spring to mind. As I review the list it seems like a few of those are getting rather close to the level of intolerability for me, but then there aren't many other better options so I suppose that raises my threshold of tolerance.
If those elements of this country disappeared I don't think I'd be patriotic simply because it's "my" country. I'm more likely to be loyal to my little home area, a county in Northern California, than focus on the country as a whole.
So what about you? Why are you patriotic, loyal to your country?
- still provides a better standard of living than may country
provides fairly equal access to education and opportunities
has a pretty good base of reasonable laws, and a livable level of unreasonable ones
mostly upholds law and order
generally adheres pretty well to due process
gives us the chance to at least select our local and in some cases state government (I'm convinced that we don't have any control over our national government because of the big political parties, media and easily-brainwashed masses, and special interests.)
while I think that taxes and government waste are too high, it still seems like they're equal or lower than the most rest of the world
I'm sure there are more things that I consider important and that help command my loyalty to the country, but those are the ones that spring to mind. As I review the list it seems like a few of those are getting rather close to the level of intolerability for me, but then there aren't many other better options so I suppose that raises my threshold of tolerance.
If those elements of this country disappeared I don't think I'd be patriotic simply because it's "my" country. I'm more likely to be loyal to my little home area, a county in Northern California, than focus on the country as a whole.
So what about you? Why are you patriotic, loyal to your country?