I think not. My hope for this country to be patriotic over, has cratered and cratered year after year. I just live here. That’s my stance. I live here, I pay taxes in contempt, I buy things in contempt in this country and I unwillingly sustain my living through what I have to pay for in contempt. Oh and I work and have worked jobs that I didn’t like that support this country’s function in contempt.
America’s history has just been fucked up, we are lead to believe that our founding fathers had good intentions for the country after we kicked Britain out from the country. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution was all a feel good moment for everyone for a young upstarting country on its road to that independence.
Then as each passing decade was built upon, it became clearer the kinds of people that took advantage of the country for one’s gains. And those people were the loud majority and instilled their ideas on a simpler world in a simpler country. Their causes, ideas and projections blossomed and took hold on every single life that lived in the US.
We have owners of this country now and it’s not the People/Public, for sure. Because that’s who’s ideals and dreams that were planted to take root into this country. We can’t possibly sink anymore lower than we have, because we’re there at rock bottom. A convicted felon, pedophile rapist is a president. We’ve had war criminals as presidents before, but this has been a new low.
And even if shithead-in-chief is out of office. There’s nothing I can think of, that will restore America to whatever former glory it had. It’s just dead.


Patriotism is fine, like it’s even a good thing.
Because it’s about being proud of your country, for the good shit it’s doing.
Nationalism is bad, because it ignores reality and is just belligerent yelling that their country is the best while disregarding facts and repeating propaganda.
Like, Norewegians are proud to be from Norway, because they have a great society that looks after the weakest, that’s patriotic and something we should strive towards.
That’s different than a trump supporter flying flags and laughing at how much people with empathy are upset, that’s nationalism.
There’s a reason we have two separate words for it, but the fascists keep wanting to erase the differences in usage.