The greatest respect that officials can show to our national symbols is to trust that they will be honored through choice. Whether in Hong Kong or in Louisiana, forced patriotism is no patriotism at all.
Right wing policies kill people, but I believe that's the point
https://newrepublic.com/article/180829/conservative-policies-rhetoric-kill-people
“It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.”
Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Just spending my elder years documenting my declining mental faculties. Love cooking, craft beer, snow, theater, and voting liberal. He/Him/Yo