When I see an American Flag...

[busterbrown]

Waving in the wind from a rear window, I automatically sneer to myself that “there goes a republican”.
Am I crazy? just asking..... Perhaps my thought is that the right has hi-jacked our flag..

[ZombieHorde]

1. They can have it. nt

[JaneyVee]

2. Not unless it's a Don't Tread on Me flag.

[Hoyt]

3. You got it, the callous war mongering right wing bigots have hijacked our flag.

[brewens]

4. When Bush stole the 2004 election, I cut mine up into strips and used it to

wipe my ass!

[Nye Bevan]

7. You are wonderful (nt)

[zappaman]

21. Wow!

[cherokeeprogressive]

25. I'm with z-man... cool story.

[redwitch]

27. I find that offensive. And stupid.

I also doubt very much that it happened.

[hrmjustin]

32. That was a bit extreme but in 2000 I sent my election registration card to the supreme court.

[darkangel218]

5. Umm.. when i see an American flag, i remember how lucky and proud i am to live here.

Sorry you feel the way you do.

[NoPasaran]

49. I'm with you

It's MY flag, not the rightwing nutjobs' flag.

And I fly it on holidays.

[Downwinder]

6. The largest ones fly over foreign car dealerships.

[hfojvt]

8. nope, and I try not to sneer at my neighbors too

"Your (sic) a grand old flag"

I guess that video WAS made by a rightwinger, or else somebody in grade school who could not figure out what an "auld aquaintance" was.

And it's "every heart beats true, under red white and blue"

[AsahinaKimi]

9. I Know the Republicans have Hi-Jacked our flag, but the question remains....

Why have we never fought to get it back? Did we just simply say, "Oh damn, you are so mean, you can just keep it?" This flag belongs to all of us.

[busterbrown]

12. Bullshit to playing nice...

Why do we not at every convention not highlight; Wilson, Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy’s contribution to keeping our country safe. Democrats have done a very mediocre job in hailing Obama’s performance in curtailing Terrorist’s activities..

[moondust]

10. Like this guy?

[hrmjustin]

34. Talk about a creep!

[Skittles]

11. I think that when I see the confederate flag

[busterbrown]

15. Notice the McCain hero bullshit..

Not enough is nearly mentioned about his treatment of families involved with M.I.A family members.

There are other things which I will not mention, however if McCain was a dem. you would hear all sorts of info. on his military record. They have no fucking boundaries with anyone..

[hrmjustin]

35. I saw a lady once walk with a confederate flag shirt here in Brooklyn.

She was not very popular at all and people let her know it.

[Skittles]

38. it's a sure-fire sign of racism

they can scream all the excuses they want but to flaunt that piece of shit flag KNOWING how deeply offensive it is to so many people

[hrmjustin]

39. My reaction exactly.

[MotherPetrie]

13. If you are then I am. The Reader's Digest-issued flag decals during the Vietnam war did it for me.

[HereSince1628]

33. But those flag decals won't get us into Heaven, anymore!

There's a hole that's Uncle Sam's fears
where all the money goes.

Geezus Christ, we'll die for nothing I suppose.

NSA has big ears,
better stop and count the years.

Sweet songs never last too long on
broken radios.

[lunatica]

14. I've never been much of a flag waver

I'm proud to be an American but I think of myself as a citizen of the world.

[busterbrown]

16. you unfortunately represent about only 30% of our population..

We better fix that number quickly....

[lunatica]

17. That much?!

Give it time.

[busterbrown]

18. Being hopeful...

[Mnemosyne]

19. My first thought when seeing a US flag, where was it made? nt

[Art_from_Ark]

30. Probably not at the Betsy Ross Flag Company

unless they have a factory in China

[zappaman]

20. When I see an American Flag...

I remember that I live in a country, that despite some of it's faults, is still one of the greatest country in the world.
I don't disparage anyone who displays a flag.

[Arugula Latte]

44. I don't think it's the greatest country.

We're the most aggressive country in the world, and we spend the most resources on our military by a huge factor, and therefore we lag in providing good public education, affordable college, healthcare, keeping up our infrastructure, making sure people don't die from hunger and preventable disease and the like. We rank high in obesity, illiteracy, gap between rich and poor, infant mortality, gun deaths, etc. Other countries have not let corporations completely take over their governments like we have.

Greatest? We could have been. But we squandered our chance.

[zappaman]

45. I said "one of the greatest country"

and I believe it.

[mick063]

22. Nationalism is a scary thing.

Whenever it grows, war seems inevitable.

[busterbrown]

23. I even thought the display at the White House after we killed Bin Laden was fucked up..

[Igel]

28. Oh, hardly.

Look at a lot of the countries in the ME.

There's China--no war there, not yet.

Mexico isn't exactly reticient. Neither is Haiti.

Nor many of the countries in Africa that are essentially at peace. Or regions in Europe. Iceland's had a bout of it. So has Catalonia.

If you consider Venezuela and Bolivia, Ecuador and Argentina, there's a pile of nationalism, some of it bordering on jingoism.

Only some nationalism gets panned. Other nationalisms seem to be applauded.

[mick063]

36. Having proudly saluted the flag every day for six years

I didn't say it was bad, all of the time, in every situation.

I said it was a scary thing.

Nationalism can quickly evolve into "For the Fatherland".

I stand by what I wrote.

[busterbrown]

40. Ubernationalism!! Military? If so, TY for your service!!

[magellan]

24. No, I've felt the same

But please read this OP. It's a nice perspective. Turned my head a little.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3168673

eta: we need to reclaim the flag and a whole lot more!

[redwitch]

26. Mine is waving on my front porch today.

I won't give it up to the rightwing fascist elements who tried to hijack it. It means something very different to me than to them I believe.

[HipChick]

29. I always thought those were the guys taking the country back..

From what I don't know..

[hrmjustin]

31. Yes the right has hi-jaked the flag and that is why many people feel that way.

I don't let the bastards get away with it.

[pintobean]

37. My union always has American Flag bumper stickers available.

I have two of them on my vehicle. I see a lot of them on vehicles at job sites and union halls.
I usually fly the flag on the front of my house, but the pole was recently damaged by heavy winds.
I'm proud to be union and proud to be an American. Sneer all you want, it's one of your constitutional rights.

[busterbrown]

41. Who's sneering..You are the solution...

We need to take it back...

[ChazII]

42. 19 United States flags

are part of a memorial in Prescott for the 19 fire fighters who lost their lives. One example of where the left and right come together. Just sayin'

[busterbrown]

43. One!!

[Populist_Prole]

46. Alas, that's pretty much what I think when I see one too...........

[Shankapotomus]

47. Nothing that a little

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peace/grunge flag can't fix:

[savalez]

48. Great post!

I am very interested in all of the opinions on this.