AMERICAN POLITICAL SYMBOL AND SUBSTANCE
In the strangely symbiotic world of American political symbolism ,the American flag, as does, the "Star Spangled Banner," even the pledge of allegiance, have exited the arbor of symbols, into the realm of faux-substance. Even more strangely this political novation, or, transformation, is wrought by an unlikely "dotard" President who is himself being investigated for possible treason and alleged collusion with the Russians for stealing the 2016 election. Yet, he would wrap himself up in the same red-white-blue flag, in Alabama, which had earlier sought to secede under its own rebel, Confederate flag; even as the faux-President calls a "son-of-a-b***h," a black man, whose formerly enslaved black male ancestors saved the very substance that the flag, anthem, an pledge claim to represent, the nation! This NFL quarterback who kneels when the symbols are raised at NFL games, to decry and protest, is showing himself to be more noble and true to the proclaimed substance of the nation that his forebears saved from destruction, than is the apocryphal President, son of immigrants!
AMERICAN POLITICAL SYMBOL AND SUBSTANCE
In the strangely symbiotic world of American political symbolism ,the American flag, as does, the "Star Spangled Banner," even the pledge of allegiance, have exited the arbor of symbols, into the realm of faux-substance. Even more strangely this political novation, or, transformation, is wrought by an unlikely "dotard" President who is himself being investigated for possible treason and alleged collusion with the Russians for stealing the 2016 election. Yet, he would wrap himself up in the same red-white-blue flag, in Alabama, which had earlier sought to secede under its own rebel, Confederate flag; even as the faux-President calls a "son-of-a-b***h," a black man, whose formerly enslaved black male ancestors saved the very substance that the flag, anthem, an pledge claim to represent, the nation! This NFL quarterback who kneels when the symbols are raised at NFL games, to decry and protest, is showing himself to be more noble and true to the proclaimed substance of the nation that his forebears saved from destruction, than is the apocryphal President, son of immigrants!
