PrayingForWar
Founder's Club Member
LOL! Right on both counts, I suspect.
By the way, one of the veterans said:
Frankly, I'm not sure what to think about someone who fights and dies for a flag rather than, say, freedom. Which includes, you know, the freedom of doing tacky and tasteless things with flags.
Sounds to me like such a person is fighting for a government (for which the flag is ultimately a symbol), rather than the ideas which our society cherishes (or used to cherish).
I might say that I find that a little disrespectful. Certainly no less disrespectful than some ridiculous Obama Messiah flag, which I find too hilariously stupid to really even think of as disrespectful.
It's kind of like, a retarded kid might give me the finger, but you know what? I'm not going to let that bother me. It probably doesn't mean to him what it does to me. He is, after all, a retard.
Ah! Now you've got me on board (now that we're talking about what the symbol is intended to represent).
And I agree completely. Citizen made an excellent post recently regarding the difference in perception of the office of President from the time of its inception to today.
People should be more concerned with electing representatives who actually consider the concerns of their constituency, rather than electing some figurehead who pretends to represent their "side" in the fictitious left-vs-right "debate". (The best part is the cute way in which everyone and all their friends are conveniently on the same "side". Politics isn't about thought anymore, it's about pretending you're smart and cool for your friends. Disgusting.)
I think of the flag as representing the country, and that the country represents (or at least once did) individual freedom.
I think a big mistake was changing how we elect the federal gov't. It used to be done at the state level. Now it's more of a beauty pagent, and the contestents are probably even more vacuous.