We've Been Flagged!

[loracs]

Pulled into our driveway tonight and there was a plastic flag on a little pole sticking in the ground near our fence.  As I looked down the street, I saw EVERY house on both sides had the same little flag.  It was "courtesy" of a realtor.  

I'm not sure how to articulate this, but I find this so much more annoying/irritating than all the other realtors' fliers I find daily on our doorstep.  Until I got home and removed it, this flag said something about me to passersby.  There's an assumption about my politics and my love for this country.  

I do love this country and because I do, I'm a progressive left leaning democrat who votes every time.  I believe the current administration wraps itself in the flag, while wiping its butt with the Constitution.  Do you think anyone who drove by my "flag waving house" would have thought this was my stance?

Comments

[wild-irises.livejournal.com]

I can so sympathize. That would absolutely infuriate me.

[sogwife.livejournal.com]

I would consider calling up said realtor and telling them what I thought of their "courtesy." Last I heard, leaving crap on other peoples' property was littering, regardless of what the crap was.

[loracs.livejournal.com]

What I found interesting this morning was which of my neighbors left theirs in place and which removed them. Now that probably sends another kind of message - in my case, a more accurate one.

There's an email address on the flier, I might just have to send them a little note.

That is just wrong

[tracytreefrog.livejournal.com]

The thing I find interesting is here in my park on the 4th a good many people put out flags but they are too cheep to get a new one once in a while so they are all tattered. It is a weird thought to me that they seem to think they are showing American pride but with a tattered flag?

[dbubley.livejournal.com]

I've decided that if I can't burn the flag, then I don't want to fly it. Fortunately I believe I can still burn one, although I never have. I've never even wanted to burn a flag, or wear it, or do anything else others might find disgraceful, but damn if I don't want the right to symbolically do whatever with this piece of cloth. Otherwise it loses any symbolic pride I might feel when looking at it, and just becomes a symbol of sorrow.

The last time my sisters were here from Missouri they wondered, "Where are all of the flags?" They would have felt right at home if they'd seen our street on the 4th. And that does make me sad.