It's called the 1st ammendment.
You guys have no understanding what it means to be a patriot. Do you think the founding fathers were saluting the Queens flag?
You should probably consider brushing up on the Federalist Papers.
Amen.
I love my country. I also realize how "Patriotism" has been used to put down all kinds of things you don't like, or more accurately, whatever the current government / people in power (especially those pulling the strings that we know so very little about) doesn't like.
Our flag is cool & has a cool history. My in laws have a flag raising & breakfast every 4th of July & I play taps at it every year. I've also been very conflicted at it every year. I love the principles the country was founded on. Just about every side will take said principles & twist & manipulate them & the symbols of our country for their own use.
The Pledge of Allegiance - The idea for it came from Karl Marx. You aren't pledging allegiance to principles, you're pledging allegiance to a piece of cloth & whatever you can be persuaded currently goes along with that cloth. The pledge as it is was written by a member of the NEA & a socialist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance_(United_States)
The National Anthem is also overused and underappreciated. If you're going to sing the 1st verse, you may as well sing the rest. Then you get messages like "conquer we must when our cause it is Just."
And if some overpaid football player wants to take the opportunity to protest, whoopdeedoo. It's in the first amendment. If his overpaid employer wants to fire him, that's his prerogative as well. Or if he wants to sit out too he can. And if the POTUS wants to take a little issue & blow it up to sidetrack us from any issues of actual import, that's his prerogative.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star-Spangled_Banner
