Nationalism is messed up. It's still messed up even if your country really were "the best" because of how it becomes automatic and blinds you to negative changes.
Suppose you had a "country" that was founded upon rightful liberty, and which only had rules that reflected that. Sure, those rules would still be unnecessary, but very little harm would come from them.
I could understand some sort of nationalism in your mind toward this "country".
However, if over time, your "country" changed to where rightful liberty was thrown under the train by more and more harmful rules, and you were in such a habit of "loving your country" that you didn't notice the change, then your nationalism becomes a caricature of itself. You are now cheering a corpse. A rotting, festering corpse which is spreading disease and killing all those who insist on kissing it on the mouth. Or wherever. You now stink just like the corpse. You appear insane to anyone looking on who is even slightly removed from your beliefs.
That's how nationalism appears to me.
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