Again, thanks to Dave Hardy, as I rip from his blog to mine

I've always had trouble with the rightwingnuts, (esp during the Viet Nam War debacle, and again with Iraq), who blindly babble, 'My country, right or wrong', and think they are such great patriots, while the morals, (not to mention treasure and lives) of our country are being sacrificed by some dumbshit like GWBush(R). I guess I'm not alone.

Carl Schurz, a Union Civil War general and senator from Missouri, who in 1872 made the distinction between a popular line of patriotic thinking — that essentially, what the United States is doing is always right — and what he believed to be a more appropriate philosophy.

“The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, ‘My country, right or wrong,’” Schurz said on the Senate floor before adding his own corollary. “My country, right or wrong,” he said. “If right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.”

That’s what Donald Trump and people of his ilk will never understand about so many Americans and their penchant for protest.  It’s not that we don’t love our country.  To the contrary, we love our country so much that we believe that it has both the capacity and the moral imperative to constantly strive to be a better country.