A little thread about flags. 1/6
This photo is from a friend’s post, taken last night in downtown Portland. Flags have been on my mind constantly in the last few weeks as I walk by the strange, bastardized versions being flown from houses and cars in my neighborhood. 2/6
I cannot remember any other administration in my lifetime claiming their own flag. Not Clinton, neither Bush, not Obama. I can’t imagine another occupational field blacking out our nation’s colors and slashing their own blue line through 3/6
an image that is intended to stand for all of us in this flawed, complicated country. I think of the disgusting emissions these trucks spew on the flag they claim to revere, that the rest of us apparently spit on and burn. 4/6
The empty “patriotism” they chant as so many “others” fight to the bone to preserve anything worth having in this collapsing nation. And now this insult, the Thin Blue Line being flown higher than that supposedly sacred, irrefutable symbol. 5/6
Sure, these are all symbols. But symbols stand in for ideas, and the message here couldn’t be clearer. Cult over country, til death do us part. 6/6
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