A fork of Rural Dictionary
A real patriot is someone who loves their country enough to speak up when they see something that needs to be changed; not someone who blindly assumes that their government knows best and is always right no matter what.
I am a patriot in the real sense of the word, not the post-9/11 "if you don't kiss our government's butt you're not a real patriot" sense.
A citizen of one of the united States who loves his country. Commonly, "love your country" is incorrectly interpreted as "support your country's government regardless of what it is doing". This is also, consequently, the type of person that people mistake a patriot as. A true patriot loves his country to the extent that he will work to change it or point out what his country's government is doing wrong. Most patriots wish to change the government to run the way the constitution describes it should.
Wow, Dave is against the Patriot Act, the Real ID act, and a whole bunch of unconstitutional laws. He must be a patriot.
Someone who appreciates his or her national heritage and as a result feels committed to upholding their country's fundamental values and morals without taking anything for granted, understanding sacrifices that were necessary throughout history. In America, patriots in the true sense of the word take advantage of their constitutional rights to free speech and due process in the name of liberty and justice for all, meaning they protest oppressive policies that deprive people of freedom. It also means they allow dissent and equal protection regardless of race, sex, gender orientation, ethnicity, religion, or national origin. Why? Because it's the spirit of the US Constitution, hence the identity of the sweet land of liberty. Pledging allegiance does not make you a patriot unless you live up to the pledge and stand by your refusal to be a bigot or warmonger, as that's not what the USA is supposed to be about. Saluting a flag doesn't mean you're patriotic unless you actually care that soldiers died to allow for your freedom. A patriot might own a gun legally but millions of them are unarmed since they're brave Americans thereby making it unnecessary, and in fact no patriot would ever use guns to intimidate others. You're definitely not a patriot if you are a vigilante, a hater, a bully, someone in favor of secession, or if you allow the thought of terrorist attacks or evil-doers in general to change your life or blame innocent people.
Wise Patriot: "Someone who hates Muslims and would deny them of human rights just because of religion is the complete opposite of a patriot, at least in the United States or any other country that doesn't have an absolute dictator"
Someone who gets upset when you don't support everything the president's administration does--as long as the administration is Republican. When the president is a Democrat, then all of a sudden the voices of dissent are patriotic.
People who claim to be patriots use the term to bully people who disagree. They often support revising history books so that kids think that the US does no wrong and protestors have never been right.
1.someone who believes that the person holding a gun and waving a u.s. flag is always right 2.synonym for misled 3.sometimes bordering on fanaticism
'It's my duty as a patriot to cheer for my government, and trust them to defend us from terrorists, even when it means lying, and bombing kids and old ladies in iraq'