@hightor,
Quote:Because of your limited imagination that doesn't surprise me at all.
This says much more about you than it does me. What's next, national borders don't really exist and everyone should be an American?
Quote:Do you think the framers wore cheap pins to show that they cared about the country?
If pins were a thing then, yes, they would have worn them. They had just founded a new country that they were proud of. You on the other hand seem to have no care for being an American and what that actually means.
Quote:Are you wearing one now? If a bigot wears one does that automatically make him a patriot?
Look a cheap way of calling me a bigot. I'm not a politician who represents our nation, I'm a private citizen. If you want to know, I do actually have a flag lapel pin on one of my suits, wore it to a veterans funeral and haven't removed it since.
Considering you support the party who spent the last 3 years linking everyone they don't like to Russia, Russia, Russia, you can't really speak on the subject or pass judgement.
Quote:When that time comes I'll choose non-conformity.
No you won't, you will fly that sickle and hammer with pride, you have already shown yourself to not be a proud American.
Quote: I think national flags are remnants of magical thinking, that their continued use should be discouraged, and that the psychological investment some people have in them is misplaced.
You mean like the psychological investment people have made into thinking socialism can work because no one else had done it properly? Does it include ignoring the deaths and misery of millions of people over the last 100 years since it first spread to Russia? You really don't want to talk about psychological investment our magical thinking considering what you believe.
Quote: I think actually protecting our land, air, and water is more important than devotion to a symbol.
You aren't actually doing anything but making a bunch of noise on the internet and trying to belittle people on a website. If you actually cared, you wouldn't be a socialist, it's failed everywhere it's been tried but you keep on with that magical thinking.
