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?

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[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.