It does seem more and more that the type of person waving the American flag is also the exact same type of person itching to wave the flag of the third Reich or the Confederate battle flag of the army of northern Virginia (which stands for murdering American soldiers, not just owning human beings as playthings, you) next to it or even above it.
These are the same people who claim to be patriots while trying to overthrow our government and murder the vice president and murder our legislative branch, while voting for a man who likely sold top secret documents about the defense of our country to enemies who want to destroy us.
Not all, but many of those who fly or wave the flag are nothing but cosplay patriots.
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There are plenty of reasons to feel proud of the US, but at some point people conceded that being “patriotic” necessitated being right-wing and conservative.
i can’t begin to grasp how big or small of an impact this may be, but it’s pretty frequent for people on the left/far-left–“people left of the Democratic Party”, you could say–to be opposed to patriotism and nationalism almost categorically. there are some edge cases for sure (left-wing nationalism is a thing), but i would imagine for some people there’s no interest in reclaiming the symbol because even patriotism for good ends is still patriotism, which they object to.
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This story originally published on Oct. 12, 2020.
“Let’s talk slavery first. That happened two or three hundred years ago”
American history: it’s more recent than you think
