“I’m sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and disagree with this administration, somehow you’re not patriotic. We need to stand up and say we’re Americans and we have the right to debate and disagree with any administration.”
“We are Americans, we have the right to participate and debate any administration.”
Patriotism
“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.”
As President Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, “In politics there are no accidents. If it happens you can bet it was planned that way.” Focusing attention on things that matter is always positive even when it appears that it is negative.