What is patriotism?

[hmkpoker]

Right on the mark, partiotism is [censored] STUPID.

How/why Americans think this is the greatest country in the world (at WHAT?!?!) boggles my mind. Education is dumb (although I'm not convinced it's that much better elsewhere), health care is expensive, drug laws are brutal, women have to be 18, drinkers have to be 21, we're more in debt than any country in the world, our citizens' average net worth is negative (technically, doesn't that make us the poorest country in the world?) and our leader's a [censored] [censored]. This is the only country in the world where people who have never been to another country will say that this is the best country in the world.

Yes, "my country right or wrong is one of the dumbest things a person can say." Defining your country as the basis of what's right and what's wrong is the single most open invitation to totalitarian abuse.