The point you are missing is that many people whose goals you don't agree with, form them and strive to reach them because they believe that doing so IS in the best interest of the country. Their motivation is, as far as they're concerned, as patriotic as it is anything else.
If you think Nazism wasn't advanced using patriotism and love of der Vaterland as a primary element of its propaganda, then you need to get your history straight.
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