How do you Define Patriotism?

[Greg the dogsitter]

Dakota wrote: My point is that in the view of the left the real patriots are the ones who go around the world and apologize for what America has done to them. The fact that you can't name a single post WWI conflict that America was right speaks volumes. Anyway, if you don't like my definition, give me yours.

Given that, my point of view is that a patriot is anyone whose not on the right, which is hateful and nasty and shallow.

This is fun! I love defining "not like me" = "offensive".