They don't hate themselves, they hate their non-like-minded compatriots. Just like when one sees a big pickup truck festooned with american flags and the pledg

They don't hate themselves, they hate their non-like-minded compatriots. Just like when one sees a big pickup truck festooned with american flags and the pledge of allegiance plastered across the rear window, it's not to express their sheer joy in being American, but to admonish their non-like-minded compatriots for being insufficiently 'American'.