Patriotism is a great concept, but should be practiced with caution.
I often ask myself what Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin would have thought of Sarah Palin and Donald Trump.
I actually have no confidence anymore in a good future for America, even though I do still hope for that.
'Nationalism is like cheap alcohol,' Daniel Fried, a veteran American diplomat, once said. 'First, it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind, and then it kills you.'
When your dreams are a lie, then you really do have to start to worry.
Decidedly, the world according to Donald Trump will not be an improvement.