I am, and believe I am (mostly) sane, empathetic, and relatively intelligent.

Its fine if things aren't perfect. We're a country with a lot of very different people with very different beliefs. Things are going to go wrong, but they tend toward getting better with time.

I can be proud of my country and the good things it has done while also recognizing its failures - both past and present. Pride can be a good thing, so long as it is not from ignorance. Pride can create expectations which drive improvement.

IMO one of the US's greatest issues right now is how much its own citizens either hate it or have given up on it. It's so much easier to white about The Other Side and how they're supposedly ruining the country than it is to enact meaningful change that we can be proud of.