For me to “love my country over the world” would be like trying to love “my heart over my body” or “my body over my mind.” We may be products of American culture and history — “Born in the U.S.A.” — but we ought to try to live up to our best and not our worst traditions.
Being a patriot can mean, as it did for Mark Twain, having a sharp awareness of our own human and institutional failings. Despite his famous American sense of humor, he was often called a leftist, too. In fact he was a genuine “anti-imperialist.”
To Thomas Paine, being faithful to British revolutionary and Enlightenment ideas meant being labeled a traitor in his homeland, supporting the American Revolution, opposing slavery, and later going to Paris to support the French Revolution, where like Lafayette he was jailed and almost murdered for trying to moderate its excesses.
So I really don’t agree with your statement about “leftist terms” and being called a racist, or about patriotism and putting “country over the world.”