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Anonymous wrote:Except flying the American flag is jingoistic and patriotic, and says you’re proud of this country. Which is definitely at-odds with how progressives view America. They see this country as something to be embarrassed about and apologize for.

So it’s a little hard to rationalize flying our flag while at the same time being embarrassed about being an American and celebrating a country that you believe can’t do anything right and was founded by white men that you viscerally hate.


That’s why liberals can’t simply fly an American flag.

They’d need a modified American flag with a giant asterisk in the upper right corner.

That’s ridiculous. Striving for continuous improvement of our republic is the most patriotic act of all. To demand that we uphold the values and ensure the freedoms and rights of Americans extend to all Americans is what makes the United States the most powerful country in the world. It is only those of us who have confidence and patriotism who can freely admit that we don’t exemplify perfection yet.

Signed a liberal who flies our flag and who has served our country.

You should post here more often. It would be so great for the left to get behind this view, that we can be a flawed country, but still embrace American ideals.

I agree that the left should be more clear that pointing out the country's flaws is not done out of hate. Loyalty doesn't mean pretending everything is perfect. We should always be striving to do better, and we can't do better if we don't know where the problems are.

Definitely post more often.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Except flying the American flag is jingoistic and patriotic, and says you’re proud of this country. Which is definitely at-odds with how progressives view America. They see this country as something to be embarrassed about and apologize for.

So it’s a little hard to rationalize flying our flag while at the same time being embarrassed about being an American and celebrating a country that you believe can’t do anything right and was founded by white men that you viscerally hate.


That’s why liberals can’t simply fly an American flag.

They’d need a modified American flag with a giant asterisk in the upper right corner.

That’s ridiculous. Striving for continuous improvement of our republic is the most patriotic act of all. To demand that we uphold the values and ensure the freedoms and rights of Americans extend to all Americans is what makes the United States the most powerful country in the world. It is only those of us who have confidence and patriotism who can freely admit that we don’t exemplify perfection yet.

Signed a liberal who flies our flag and who has served our country.

You should post here more often. It would be so great for the left to get behind this view, that we can be a flawed country, but still embrace American ideals.

I agree that the left should be more clear that pointing out the country's flaws is not done out of hate. Loyalty doesn't mean pretending everything is perfect. We should always be striving to do better, and we can't do better if we don't know where the problems are.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Except flying the American flag is jingoistic and patriotic, and says you’re proud of this country. Which is definitely at-odds with how progressives view America. They see this country as something to be embarrassed about and apologize for.

So it’s a little hard to rationalize flying our flag while at the same time being embarrassed about being an American and celebrating a country that you believe can’t do anything right and was founded by white men that you viscerally hate.


That’s why liberals can’t simply fly an American flag.

They’d need a modified American flag with a giant asterisk in the upper right corner.

That’s ridiculous. Striving for continuous improvement of our republic is the most patriotic act of all. To demand that we uphold the values and ensure the freedoms and rights of Americans extend to all Americans is what makes the United States the most powerful country in the world. It is only those of us who have confidence and patriotism who can freely admit that we don’t exemplify perfection yet.

Signed a liberal who flies our flag and who has served our country.

You should post here more often. It would be so great for the left to get behind this view, that we can be a flawed country, but still embrace American ideals.

Anonymous wrote:Except flying the American flag is jingoistic and patriotic, and says you’re proud of this country. Which is definitely at-odds with how progressives view America. They see this country as something to be embarrassed about and apologize for.

So it’s a little hard to rationalize flying our flag while at the same time being embarrassed about being an American and celebrating a country that you believe can’t do anything right and was founded by white men that you viscerally hate.


That’s why liberals can’t simply fly an American flag.

They’d need a modified American flag with a giant asterisk in the upper right corner.

That’s ridiculous. Striving for continuous improvement of our republic is the most patriotic act of all. To demand that we uphold the values and ensure the freedoms and rights of Americans extend to all Americans is what makes the United States the most powerful country in the world. It is only those of us who have confidence and patriotism who can freely admit that we don’t exemplify perfection yet.

Signed a liberal who flies our flag and who has served our country.

Anonymous wrote:Except flying the American flag is jingoistic and patriotic, and says you’re proud of this country. Which is definitely at-odds with how progressives view America. They see this country as something to be embarrassed about and apologize for.

So it’s a little hard to rationalize flying our flag while at the same time being embarrassed about being an American and celebrating a country that you believe can’t do anything right and was founded by white men that you viscerally hate.


That’s why liberals can’t simply fly an American flag.

They’d need a modified American flag with a giant asterisk in the upper right corner.

This is all why I defected from the left. Am I alarmed about some of what happened in the Trump administration and among some Trump followers? Yes. But I like America and respect and believe in the ideals, while the left has spent several years putting forth an argument that the US is inherently evil and none of our issues can be fixed. So, while they claim the right is a threat to democracy, the left says you are a Nazi if you fly our flag. I mean, which one is it? I dont believe they want to preserve a nation they are openly contempuous of, that they loudly scorn. This is not the left of the 90s, when democrats flew flags, honored police, and respected the poor and working class.

Except flying the American flag is jingoistic and patriotic, and says you’re proud of this country. Which is definitely at-odds with how progressives view America. They see this country as something to be embarrassed about and apologize for.

So it’s a little hard to rationalize flying our flag while at the same time being embarrassed about being an American and celebrating a country that you believe can’t do anything right and was founded by white men that you viscerally hate.


That’s why liberals can’t simply fly an American flag.

They’d need a modified American flag with a giant asterisk in the upper right corner.

Anonymous wrote:I, a liberal, feel like we are literally fighting to hold onto the America I love. Warts and all.

Letting these treasonous idiots co-opt our flag is ceding them ownership of the country. Hard pass.

Im not a liberal and wish more people would adopt your attitude. I hope you do fly a flag. I also fear that the left is trying to burn everything down and it would be nice to see the left demonstrate that they love America "warts and all."

The american flag stands for the democracy of our republic and the Rule of Law.

This shouldn’t be a divisive political issue, but the current climate seems to have put us there.

FTR, if you remain on Team Trump, then you are turning your back on democracy, the rule of law, and America.

Signed,

Lady Lawyer whose day job defends the Rule of Law

I, a liberal, feel like we are literally fighting to hold onto the America I love. Warts and all.

Letting these treasonous idiots co-opt our flag is ceding them ownership of the country. Hard pass.

Anyone who believes unamerican lies about stolen elections and supported the vicious attack on the US Capitol does not deserve to fly the flag of the United States.

Anonymous wrote:Liberal Americans have more right to fly the flag than anyone given that the the last Republican President tried to overturn an election.

And was a huge criminal.

And Republicans still support him.

My relatives fought in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. Most of my family has been here since the 1600s.

My father was a Vietnam Vet.

I'll be damned if some conservative gets to tell me I'm not American enough to fly the flag.

So... will you fly one?

I left the GOP in the Bush administration over Iraq. And I hate Trump.

But I consider myself to be a proud patriotic American and I display a US flag.

If you support Trump, put out a Trump flag. But don't conflate the US with Trump. The USA was here long before Trump and will continue on without Trump.

Liberal Americans have more right to fly the flag than anyone given that the the last Republican President tried to overturn an election.

And was a huge criminal.

And Republicans still support him.

My relatives fought in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. Most of my family has been here since the 1600s.

My father was a Vietnam Vet.

I'll be damned if some conservative gets to tell me I'm not American enough to fly the flag.

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Anonymous wrote:There are no liberals flying the American flag!

Please DCUMers if you are liberal and recently put an American flag out, take it down. The American flag does not represent anything you stand for.

It really doesn’t. And that’s the absolute truth.

Even though you have many posts on here by liberals saying they proudly fly the American flag?
The word for your ilk is derp.

Anonymous wrote:There are no liberals flying the American flag!

Please DCUMers if you are liberal and recently put an American flag out, take it down. The American flag does not represent anything you stand for.

It really doesn’t. And that’s the absolute truth.