Don’t Disrespect Our Flag!!!

[WinnisquamZ]

Writing “Fit the white privileged description”. Says all we need to know about you.


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[swnoel]

I think there's a lot of people that believe this country is in trouble... flying the flag upside down is their right as a distressed American who is watching the country be destroyed.

[Biggd]

Well I can see this thread is turning ugly already.

[Paugus Bay Resident]

Yup, yet another goes sideways. Seems to be the trend.

[MAXUM]

"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."

- John F. Kennedy

[sunset on the dock]

Originally Posted by Paugus Bay Resident

Yup, yet another goes sideways. Seems to be the trend.

Perhaps not so much sideways but rather to the heart of the matter. The initial post in this thread evokes as much controversy as any that follow. My father too was a WW2 veteran. I suspect that while he may not have approved of a person flying the U.S. flag upside down, it would be small potatoes to what he would have disapproved over the last year. Like storming the Capitol, attacking the police defending it, all based on lies perpetrated by some very dishonest politicians and amplified by certain disingenuous media.
The right to free expression was one of the things he fought for. Sadly some in our past administration actively sought to muzzle this in the press (most recently coming to light is how the president wanted "his" justice department to stop SNL from teasing him).
I was a life long Republican who left the party after the misguided and bungled attack on Iraq by a president looking for WMD. It destabilized the entire Middle East. And now even those events seem to pale in comparison to the dishonesty and lying we are now seeing. It becomes tiresome to see people who have never opened a civics book or have even a rudimentary understanding of the constitution whining about their constitutional "rights" being violated because they can't do anything and everything they want, no matter how it affects their fellow citizens. "Me me me". I wish more people could focus on the real issues instead of getting their knickers in a twist over which bathroom someone uses or whether they are disrespecting the flag. And the referenced "America, love it or leave it" trope adds nothing meaningful to the discussion.

[Paugus Bay Resident]

Perhaps, but of late the forum seems more like Facebook than the Winni.com I new since it started. We did have our controversy for sure, but it seemed the exception rather than the rule - and it was most always about the lake. Now, things seem to turn personal on a dime. A reflection of society in general I suppose.

[XCR-700]

Originally Posted by Paugus Bay Resident

Perhaps, but of late the forum seems more like Facebook than the Winni.com I new since it started. We did have our controversy for sure, but it seemed the exception rather than the rule - and it was most always about the lake. Now, things seem to turn personal on a dime. A reflection of society in general I suppose.

And a country in distress.

I think Sunset on the Dock wrote the best thing I have seen in this thread; "I wish more people could focus on the real issues instead of getting their knickers in a twist over which bathroom someone uses or whether they are disrespecting the flag."

Now agreeing on what those issues are is yet another discussion, but hopefully we can rank the laundry list so that the biggest/highest impact items get addressed first, as opposed to the strategy of the last 50 years where they seem to be the last items on the political list to address,,,