When was it that Barney started pushing for the dropping of bombs, the wholesale dismissal of public opinion, and a Kremlin-meets-McCarthy-style program of Constitutional subversion and rights removal in the name of "national security"?
America could be so great; instead, the coldhearted, bloodthirsty businessmen who've appointed themselves to "lead" us insist on shamelessly making a complete mockery of everything that could be good about the place. When these brutes insist on using fear, false choices, propaganda and lies to destroy the fabric of our freedom, it makes it pretty easy to hate the place.
If you lived in a beautiful home in the woods, and suddenly someone put an airport, a WalMart, a truckstop, and a strip mall directly adjacent to your property and surrounded it with stadium lights, would you still want to live there?