Love it or leave it only holds up meddaforicly. Imo it shouldn't meanyou can't point out problems and suggest solutions, I become angry on patriotic grounds when someone is giving me a narrative of how we're living in a smoldering dumpster fire while at the same time benifiting from living in our system. Anarchists, for example, who thi.k we need to abolish all government are at perfect liberty to say that here, they would not be at perfect liberty to say that in Mexico, or NorthKorea. Imo we live in the greatest country in the world, this does not mean we live in a perfect country. I'm a conservative in the sense that I favor careful changes to make society better. If we were going to raise taxes, I'd prefer we do it slowly, over ten years, rather than rapidly all at once. Similarly, if we were going to overhall our education system, I'd like to see it tried in a few states first.