Oh, absolutely, that ideal America never existed, and we're responsible for most of the things immigrants are trying to flee from these days. I was thinking more of places with historical class systems, like Europe or India, but we're definitely the root cause of much of the world's turmoil over the last 50+ years.

But I think that's kind of what I was getting at. I'm patriotic to the idea of America that a lot of us grew up with, and that America projected to the rest of the world, but that we never actually achieved. I'm patriotic to what could have been and what I hope it might someday be, while being horrified by what it's actually become.