I’ll be proud of America again when America starts being the place my parents, teachers, etc. told me it was. The place where all are created equal, where anybody can succeed, where you can be anything you want to be, where the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to be free can come to live their dreams.
Right now, I feel like I was sold a bill of goods, and the lie only becomes more obvious with every passing day.
“Extreme” pride in any country is just nationalism. If we have less of that, then we have gained as a society.
*Edit: Which is not to say that you should take no pride in your home at all. A lack of pride is similarly unhealthy, it leaves you uninvested in the place where you (and probably your friends and family) live. Even if you don’t approve of your current government, I guarantee you there are things to be proud of in your home, and you should take pride in them and work to maintain and improve them.
I mean the supreme court just rules that it’s okay that they be bribed for their work after the deed is done, and also that the president is arbitrarily immune from prosecution, likely ultimately decided by them.
I love what this country should represent, but the current direction is a disaster.
It should be at zero.
I don’t hate being American, but extreme pride? The fuck? Look at even our recent history…
There is a subset of people who will have pride no matter what happens. Partially just through their own ignorance
I fucking love being American. I hold American ideals in high regard.
I hate that people who hate freedom and equality claim to love America and freedom in general. I live in a red state, so I see traitorous flags everywhere I go. But American values hold true.
Pride month in general fills me with a lot of American pride. Regardless of how many antagonistic people there are, those who continue the fight for rights show the true American spirit.
I remember when gay marriage was illegal, which always felt like it was unconstitutional and anti-American. So seeing people celebrate those rights and continue to fight for rights that are withheld, that is America to me.
I’d bet that those that are in the “extreme pride” bracket have ratcheted up their pride to ever higher levels.
Good. That shit is cringeworthy and internationally embarrassing.
Don’t you want some FREEDOM FRIES???
In a way I understand.
