In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.
I have no sense of patriotism but I do have a sense of community.
It evolved from my experience in the fifties growing up during the McCarthy...
While there continues to be differences the important point is that all citizens and elected officials use democratic and legal avenues for solving those differences.