Give Us Back our Damn Flag

[tzikeh]

http://www.laweekly.com/ink/04/32/features-flacks.php

This post-9/11 patriotic fervor has revitalized the conventional wisdom that love of country is synonymous with conservatism. Conservatives, we are told, wave the flag. Or wear it on their lapels. Leftists, by contrast, only scorn it. Or burn it... [b]ut some progressives are now challenging this conventional reflex, no longer conceding that conservatives have a monopoly on Old Glory....

Oh she's only as rich as the poorest of the poor
only as free as a padlocked prison door
only as strong as our love for this land
only as tall as we stand

Comments

[thermidor.livejournal.com]

:::applauds:::

[kirbyfest.livejournal.com]

Yes.

I have an American flag window cling on my car. When I first put it on there, a woman I worked with saw it and said "But you hate Bush, you don't support anything he does, and you're a total liberal. Why do you have a flag on your car?"

"Because," I said. "I love this country, no matter what I think of our government." She thought about it for a moment, then nodded.

Flaming liberals have just as much right to the flag as lockstep conservatives. They don't get to "own" it.