Patriot Edit Meaning

1.

Originally, a patriot was someone who loves their country and supports it, but won't blindly follow whatever their country's government does. These days, it is synonymous with Nationalist, which is someone who blindly follows whatever his country's government does, and lacks his own ability to think and reason for himself.

Many Americans seem to be patriots. More of them are nationalists.

2.

The 5th most common word in the USA, with "give", "me", "another" and "burger", just beating it to the top 4 places.

Give me another burger cos i'm a patriot

See elliot

3.

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.

4.

(n.) One who is proud of thier roots and has love for thier fellow countrymen and thier land.

Most of the definitions here represent the 5% (270 million, or ther abouts)of the world who are in the united states. Patriotism is 95% about the rest of the world. Rule Britannia, and fuck your pitiful homelands. Rise again! Rise again!

See Kung-Fu Jesus

5.

Someone who put a flag on their SUV after 9/11 and thought they had done their part.

Patriots caused WWI

6.

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.

See patriot, flag, 9/11, government, D-Shiznit

7.

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'