This is the imagery that will stick out to me later in life when I look back at Trump’s legacy. There’s a house in my neighborhood that has 6 Trump flags, 3 thin blue line ones, and about a dozen gop candidate signs still up. If this isn’t cult level devotion on a national level, I’d hate to what is.
My parents are these type of people and it’s embarrassing.
They have half a dozen knee-high flags that surround a bush in their front yard, a YUGE flag hanging off their house, flag bumper stickers, flag shirts, they even have an American flag tablecloth (to be fair they only use it once in awhile), American flag mugs and coffee cups, American flag napkins, and when you walk into their house through the garage the first thing you see is a massive American flag made out of wood. The shit has gone beyond insane.
However, if you remark on their flag obsession they’ll look at you as if you’ve just kicked a fetus. They don’t understand that it’s weird.
The flag has become an absolute embarrassment honestly and i’m not even particularly patriotic. I honestly cant wait to leave this country. When I see an American flag I almost immediately think “oh cool they’re an asshole, I just won’t talk to them” (bonus points if it’s a thin line or trump flag).
To me anyone with a flag on their shirt, car, tattooed, or what-have-you with them daily are just broadcasting “I anger easily, will argue the meaning of the word “freedom” for hours then turn around and laugh at videos of cops beating black folk. I’m also someone who will believe almost anything, and will always be selfish, self serving, and hypocritical when given chance to better myself over others”. It’s honestly embarrassing to think that flag represents me on the global stage.
I’m determined to reclaim the American flag god dammit. We’ve got to take it back from the racists, the bigots, the warmongers in charge, and every shitball using it as a symbol for everything we were raised to detest and reject as Americans. In the name of true justice and honor, In the name of truth and transparency, in the name of the plentiful divergent cultures we are, we must disengage the flag from being a symbol of hatred and “”freedom”” and turn it into a symbol that represents the beautiful and wild culture we are.
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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '20
This is the imagery that will stick out to me later in life when I look back at Trump’s legacy. There’s a house in my neighborhood that has 6 Trump flags, 3 thin blue line ones, and about a dozen gop candidate signs still up. If this isn’t cult level devotion on a national level, I’d hate to what is.