There is a NFL game tonight.
There are also NCAA football games.
Baseball is in playoff mode.
Anyone watching?
If you are, and you have NEVER stood up at home, the bar, a friend’s house, during the TV screenings in the mall, or in the airport, then you are a traitor.
You see, if it is right, it means that you have to do it when no one else is watching….
If you believe that holding your hand over your heart is only good enough for the stadium, then you are one of those people that believes in PDPs, or Public Displays of Patriotism, and while you hold everyone to this standard, while you are at home, walking in and out of the room with snacks, only to pay attention AFTER the anthem is over, you turn down the anthem to talk, you turn on other shows while the anthem is playing, you drink, talk or eat during the anthem, you are not watching television during the anthem, or you are occasionally engaging in sexual acts in front of the TV, or you are doing something else irreverent while the anthem is taking place–but in no way have you EVER stood with hand across heart, mouthed the words simultaneously with the speaker, and thanked America in the confines of your own space while it was being played and displayed–then you are not a true American.
If you believe that a Congressmen, who is a proven liar, should be able yell at the President of the United States during the middle of a live address to the nation, and not receive any punitive measures, then you are not a patriot. If you were one of the many who helped contribute the million dollars in donations to his reelection campaign just hours after his outburst, then you are a traitor to America.
If you believe it wrong for people to question the views, motives, messages, and statements of the President, while thinking it right for the President to assert that people who don’t share his views should be fired, then you do not know the American Bill of Rights and perhaps any of our Articles.
If you believe that people can protest as long as they want to, because it is their American and God given right to be ultra conservative in the face of the progressive agenda; if you believe that it is wrong for socialist hotbeds of intellectualism like UC Berkeley and other coastal universities to stop being ‘politically correct’ and stop coddling our youth and allow for conservatives with no ties to organizations, no articulated vision inclusive to all Americans, or the any relationship to campuses, are not educators or elected officials, to have the right to come and give hate speeches and sell their books, and make the university responsible for paying for their security; if you believe in the right of the KKK to exist, for FOX News not to be held liable for inciting intolerance under the guise of free speech and not the requirements of accurate reporting—and you get mad that ball players that are publicly showing their dismay with a law enforcement system which has collectively held the sworn oath (and receives pay with benefits) to protect us all has been found on hundreds of occasions to be in violation of that promise and they don’t want to stand for a program that has been issued over the last 8 years, then you are a hypocrite, and a traitor, and Un-American.
If you are okay with the fact that the NFL donates only 8-12% of proceeds for Breast Cancer Awareness contributions, or that the armed forces pay about $11 million dollars to advertise and promote the military by the use of the ads and the flag and anthem, and you think this is truly about patriotism, then the players are not the only ones on the field of vision with CTE…..
Now, hurry up and get back to the game, the anthem is just about to start….
holowe 