The arrested man identified himself as a combat veteran and said he was burning the American flag in protest of an executive order Trump signed Monday targeting flag burning.
The arrested man identified himself as a combat veteran and said he was burning the American flag in protest of an executive order Trump signed Monday targeting flag burning.
Yeah, I was surrounded by many of them during K-12. We had to stand and pledge allegiance every single day. I usually mumbled my way through it in the early years. At some point, I just stopped doing the mumbling any more. It felt so mindless and cultish.
I remember some girl in high school doing some mock outrage at seeing me doing this, but more in a flirty way, like “you’re so baaaaad, boy!” kind of way.
Luckily I had parents that did a lot of the Lord’s work in counter-brainwashing when I was at home, LOL, so none of the “stand for the anthem and reciting the pledge” every morning at government school (with the 1950s red scare phrase added in, mind you to scare away the godless commies!) didn’t really stick.
I’m still patriotic as HELL. And I love this country’s supposed ideals and founding documents like nobody’s business. But not in the way the brainless cons think of “patriotism”. Their false patriotism is a pantload.