My pride in being an American citizen, "the greatest privilege on earth," means that I was born into a country that conferred freedom upon me, and had in place a government with one purpose and one purpose only: to protect that freedom.
We have gone so far astray from that, driven by the mob, that my pride in country is not what it once was.
In my retirement years I have had the opportunity to travel around the world and see how other people live. There are many countries around the world where people have more freedom, especially economic freedom, than they do in the USA. Nonetheless, when I get through customs, and I am back on American soil, I tend to be very happy that I am a citizen of the USA, and I wonder how I got to be born so lucky.