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I kind of an old fashioned patriotic type, mostly because I used to believe that America was flawed and corrupt—but trying to overcome this, and create a better society;but then one day, after spending many years studying the political philosophy and science that emanates from the University of Chicago as well as reflecting on the economics spawned (in addition to much else: I am adopted!) by the school, I came to the conclusion that the school's apparently liberal economic policies, while sucessful and beneficial in the short run to nations, are really propelling those nations, as they have indeed our own, toward a situation that has stripped our country—and others—of its traditions of civic virtue: All in the hopes of creating the kind of atomized (see Lucretius, Leucipius, and Democritus in Leo Strauss' "Liberalism Ancient and Modern") anomic liberalism that may cause our regime to face a crisis like that faced in Weimer Germany (for my extensive analysis of this problem see my linked works, but also note my reservations about my conclusions expressed in my other blogs: It is a hypothesis, not fact or well established social science:—http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog&friendID=287982265