Not sure who wrote it, but man do I agree with a lot of it. "There is a quiet resistance within the administration of people choosing to put country first. But the real difference will be made by everyday citizens rising above politics, reaching across the aisle and resolving to shed the labels in favor of a single one: Americans."
Sita, when you talked about why you stand for the anthem, you invoked your feelings as a major reason for doing so. I agree with you that doing the little things right keeps the big things to a minimum. I think if we are going to come together as a nation we should say things like, "Wow, you seem really upset. What really is wrong?" Saying fire the SOB's probably doesn't make people want to listen to your side, or even try to work with you. People looked at Martin Luther King Jr. the same way they people are talking about Kapernic. (Not drawing a moral equivalence by any means.) The Revolution happened because the King stood on moral superiority and demanded that the colonists do what was right in his eyes. The French Revolution happened because the morally entitled ruling class just wanted the peasants to do the right thing. I don't believe we are on the brink of a civil war, but if it happens it isn't going to be the angry right or the looney left, it is going to be the unheard middle that has gone without the things they need because they were doing the little things right, and being denied what was rightfully theirs. I react to the anthem the same way you do, and one of my best memories ever was seeing a street lined with flags blowing in the wind in Denver after I returned to the US after a year of teaching in the Caroline Islands. But part of my value system includes justice for all. Bill should have been convicted for perjury, but the moral majority made it about a BJ. Kushner should have gone to jail for lying on his security clearance app. Hillary should have gotten the same treatment as Petreus for mis-handling classified info. Those of us who have a net worth of less than a hundred million dollars should be able to get away with the same things as the CEOs of Wells Fargo.
In closing I want to say kapernik is not out of the NFL because he kneeled he was 3-16 in the last two seasons as a starting QB then he opted out. He is not in the league because he is not even an average starting QB and he turned down contracts to be a back up.
I cared. I volunteered to be an Army infantryman because I love this country. I gave up a couple year of my life to serve this country. Some gave up everything. I get chills when I hear the National anthem. They are entitled to their opinion and I’m entitled to mine. I’m on vacation right now wearing dirty Reebok socks because my Nike ones will be staying in Mexico when I leave. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Did you care that Marshawn Lynch sat for the anthem since his rookie year? Years before any of this became a big deal. Or wasn't it a big deal because Trump didn't tweet about/care about this issue until he became president?
I respect your views but disagree with them. It is a dangerous precedent, a cliched slippery slope. What's good for the country certainly is a subjective criteria. If you approve of it against a man for whom you haven't voted, you only need to flip that around to feel the crotch-kick of having your own vote disqualified. The Op Ed piece seems to give credence to the worst of Trump's paranoia, as well. Seems like there really is a deep state and a conspiracy in the media to obstruct a legally elected president. A newspaper that will print an Op Ed without a name has lost a great deal of integrity in my eyes.
I didn’t know about it because I don’t spend my free time glued to the TV. Had I known about it then it would have found it as revolting as I do now. I didn’t learn to love my country from trump. I find it odd that you make this assumption. I’m guessing our backgrounds are very different. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
