It is entirely possible to be deeply patriotic (love your country) and yet to distrust its government and/or power structure and/or 'establishment'.
This sounds like the liberals' attitude toward the Bush administration (or as they call it, Bushlite or the smirk). Of course, as soon as lib Dem gets in they would suddenly lose their distrust of government.
5 posted on 06/30/2002 10:05:13 PM PDT by luvbach1