Does being a Patriot mean supporting your Country and Constitution or....?

Question

supporting the most corrupt Regime to ever steal it's way into office?

Answer 1

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else"
- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States


Ben Franklin quote
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

Edward Abbey, Patriotism quotes:
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, Patriotism quotes:
Here in America we are descended in spirit from revolutionaries and rebels -- men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine.

Sidney Hook, Patriotism quotes:
To silence criticism is to silence freedom.


Thomas Jefferson, Patriotism quotes:
God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ... And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Answer 2

Gee, asterisk-guy (what, can't even put a name to your senseless questions?) tell us how you really feel. First, does answering your question require us to accept your premise that this administration (not regime, look it up) is corrupt, and if it is, that it is the most corrupt?

Let's assume that all administrations have a degree of corruption. Just to test the basis of your assertion that it is the most corrupt, can you list #2, and explain why this one exceeds that one?

side note - in the context of your question, patriot, country, constitution and regime are not proper nouns. And it's means it is. You wanted to use its. Apparently you were one of the Children Left Behind.

Civil discussion leads to change in civilization. Baseless rants and baiting just lead to polarization of society.

Answer 3

I don't know how old you are, but this is hardly the "most corrupt Regime..." I have never seen so many drama queens in one place as on this site.

Being a patriot means being willing to give your life for your country.

Answer 4

It means supporting your rights and the ideals under which the nation was founded under, no matter who is in office. As both parties have shown blatant disregard for the Constitution, it means you should support neither.

Answer 5

Actually Andrew Johnson had an even more corrupt government.

But Bush takes the cake for corrupt regimes, seeing how he FALSIFIED THE ELECTION.

Answer 6

If that is true, which ever screen name I am answering, then why haven't the Dem's filed Articles of Impeachment?

I guess they must not agree with you or any of your many persona's.

Answer 7

Being a patriot means:

1) your own government is pulling a fast one on you.
2) you are blind of your own government's wrongdoing.
3) you allow your own government to ruin your own life.