I'm sorry for your Dad, English Patriot, he must have died a deeply unhappy person.

Neither does one have to hate in order to be a patriot. Patriotism is associated with love (of country, of people, of ideals) and not with hate, which is more often a characteristic of bigotry.

So please don't sully the word "patriotism" by attempting to associate it with hate. The two don't go together.

What a thread to start...you must have lots of bitterness inside you for whatever reason. I am sorry for that, and I wish I could make it better for you. But hate won't help - trust me on that, I have seen from close up a lot more of the results of hate than most people have, and the outcome is never hapiness.