dale blanker wrote:Although it appears Anthem kneelers are being disrespectful to the Anthem and the flag, it certainly does not rise to the level of flag burning or the chanting of Neo-Nazi and white supremacists in Charlottesville that the President defended. When a national figure such as an NFL player refuses to stand for the national anthem, it shocks people into paying attention and generates conversation. He believes the United States is not living up to its ideals of freedom, liberty, and justice for all. He is not disrespecting the system but the way it is being implemented.
Personally, when I hear the Anthem I think about the scene that Francis Scott Key described, I feel moved and glad that I am living here. However, I’m not so glad about the way my government is acting now.
Dale, while I applaud your patriotism, once again, you are misled on the President. He never once defended, any white supremacist groups, in Charlottesville, or anywhere else. He simply reiterated the fact, that no matter how despicable we may find a group's diatribe, they still have the right, under our Constitution, to protest, and demonstrate.
Trump is showing everyday, exactly, why and how, our "government" has given up any pretense of really defending the Constitution. He is having to wade through so many years of the dissolution of that document, before he can actually get people to understand it's meaning, and authority.