you feel uncomfortable with the phrase "love America"?
Yes, a bit, as I said, because I don't understand what is meant by the term. I try not to be a blinded patriot, my country right or wrong.
I suppose in my old age I have turned away from some of the stuff we were fed as youth. I find it useful to challenge assumptions, my own in particular.
Useful, but at times uncomfortable. What does it mean to love one's country? Does it refer to the general populace? I think the people in this country generally are pretty solid folks, unlike some who seem to try and diminish them in nearly every post perhaps. I think other countries have good things, and bad, about them. I don't especially "love" any other country, I admire some aspects of many countries. I choose to live here. I recognize that focusing entirely on the bad makes one likely to think somewhere else is better, and I tend to think that is not the case, somewhere else would be different.
I wish a lot of things were different, but I've come to grips with the simple fact that wishing something won't make it any truer than not wishing it.
I am amazed how often someone else will say "This SHOULD happen". Well, OK then, maybe so, but it's not happening, can you change it?