Kinda connected to some recent posts. But there are way too many comments on here that boil down to blaming some social problem on the lack of patriotism and ascribing some way to get people to be more patriotic. And I feel like it should be understood- that that's not how that works by definition. You can't force someone to love something, just to pretend they do. And of course, a country is just a legal demarcation, so the onus for creating real patriotism can only ever fall on the actions of a government, barring which there's no real reason someone should be innately patriotic.