instilling hatred, even of bush, is ineffective as an means of education/enlightenment…

worshipping leaders, or being part of that great -though not good – religion, nationalism is also a pitfall to freethinking.

Dr. Johnson’s famous dictionary, patriotism is defined as the last refuge of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer, I beg to submit that it is the first.
Author: Ambrose Bierce

A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a nation’s nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again. – George Bernard Shaw

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. – George Bernard Shaw