What exactly does it mean to love your country? Is it loving the government, the people or the land? Can you love your country but hate the government?

It’s loving the nation with which you identify; and yes, you can hate a nation’s government but love the nation.

I think of my country as my nation. There’s a ton of definitions of “nation”, but the one I like best is that a nation is large a group of people bound together by ideals.

I live and work and grew up in America, and as a nation, I think we’re bound together by certain ideals: egalitarianism (all people are equal), individualism (each individual is important and has a right to pursue life, liberty, and happiness), altruism (it’s intrinsically good to be good to others; do unto others as you’d have done unto you ).

I think we’ve got a very long way to go as a nation before we’re even close to reaching these ideals, but I believe that most Americans believe in these things, and that that’s what makes us a nation.

I love the US as a nation that aspires to these ideals. I do not love governments that impede our progress towards them, the current administration as a case in point.