I ascribe to
George Bernard Shaw's outlook: "Patriotism is the conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."
The guy's full of great quotes. Some additional relevant bits:
"Democracy is a system ensuring that the people are governed no better than they deserve."
"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."
But Shaw was a patriot. Not of an individual nation, but of people in general:
"This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being a force of nature, instead of a selfish, feverish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me, it is a sort of splendid torch which I've got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations."