American Patriotism

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v class="googleright">The Random House dictionary defines a patriot for one who "defends his alternatively her country and its interests," but it too greeting a patriot as a "defender, esp. of individual rights, against inferred interference by the federal government."
Our country today namely distressed not merely with variant war abroad, yet with a war of words at home. On an side are those who justify the present government without answer. They are raged at those ashore the additional side, who talk out opposition policies and determinations made by those in power today. Both sides claim patriotism, but apt what? Could it be namely our differing definitions of 'patriotism' could be undermining the permanence of the quite country we are always claim to be defending? Lao Tzu wrote in his Tao Te Ching, "When the country falls into muddle, patriotism is born." Has it gotten that wrong yet?
The Revolutionary War was fought by so-called 'patriots'