Patriotism is dissent. Second, no one is against securing our borders, some of us simply think the wall is a waste of our tax dollars. I support a merit based system - but you wouldn't know that, because to you, I am just a lib-dem-commie traitor who hates america.
Personal responsibility? This isn't even a thing in the conservative arsenal anymore, so I am not sure why you're bringing it up. States rights? You mean trampling them by using executive power to dictate to california that california is not allowed to set emission standards for itself? Or, telling states they cannot regulate firearms, marriage, etc? Or, the ACA?
Stop expecting us to police the world? You mean like proposing endless soldiery into the ME to check Iran? Or, moving troops from northern syria, betraying our allies, to not bring them home, but instead, to guard the "oil." Is that the sort of patriotism you mean? Or, how about denigrating and insulting our own cities, senators, congresspeople, governors, state legislatures, men, women, children, in almost every state across the union?
Is it patriotic to say to california no federal aid against wildfires because Nancy Pelosi, a CA congresswoman and speaker of the house, is actively impeaching the president? Is it patriotic to see our american brothers and sisters in california suffer, all to satisfy the ego of Trump?
What's not patriotic is pardoning war criminals. That's certainly not patriotic. It's also not patriotic to spend hundreds of billions of tax dollars to endlessly occupy other nations, sending our troops all over the world. If they were defending us, they'd be best used here.
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Your definition of patriotism is based on ignorance of the above, and an acceptance of only your perspective, so much so that you denigrate and soil rational conversation, project onto your opponents, and insist everyone else is not a patriot, just because we dare to question something you agree with.
Don't you even dare to try and lecture any of us about patriotism.
