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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Those of you who see encouraging or suborning protest during the pledge/anthem as political indoctrination of children: how is it not political indoctrination to encourage/expect children to recite the pledge of allegiance and to stand at attention during the anthem? You are simply encouraging a different form of indoctrination with this "my country, right or wrong" attitude. [/quote]

We are standing because "WE" are our country, NOT some leader, monarch or individual. We the people. We are standing to honor our ideal: liberty and justice for all.

We are standing to honor those who bled on the battlefield to protect "WE" Americans and our ideals above, and for those whose coffins come back wrapped in our flag.

The red stripes on the flag symbolize blood shed on the battlefield btw.

The flag is not Trump, or Obama, or any president, politician or political party.  The flag is we the people and the ideals that we aspire to and fight for.

When they are protesting the flag, it is not a symbol of Trump they are insulting. They are insulting our ideals and those who fought and died for those ideals.

That is what is so insulting about this stupid "protest"[/quote]

The protest arose because we are not living up to the ideals represented by the flag, those same ideals "we aspire to and fight for." The protest is meaningful precisely because of the potency of the flag imagery. It is not insulting the ideals but demanding that we work harder to achieve them.

I agree that the protest is not about Trump, or it wasn't originally. Maybe after this weekend it is, since he insists on inflaming passions and dividing people to feed red meat to his base.
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My father and brother were Veterans, and my  brother died for his country. I believe the flag is an important symbol of American freedom, liberty, and those who have defended those ideals. I also believe it is legitimate to point out that those ideals are not being honored for many.

NPR did a story that many people who disagree with the football players' protests don't believe there is inequality in America. I think this is really the crux of the problem and why NFL players began the protest to begin with: to emphasize that our nation has not fulfilled those ideals for all Americans and to urge us all to strive for that better America.[/quote]

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