“There is no perfect country; and to speak out against what you believe is wrong in a nation does not mean that you are any less patriotic than the citizen who tolerates wrong. The true patriot takes this view: ‘My country right, to keep it right; if wrong, to set it right.’” (Leroy Brownlow) As a democratic republic with a capitalistic foundation, the United States of America has reaped tremendous blessings since its birth as a nation almost 250 years ago. As stated in the D