George Rebane
This patriotic graphic was posted on last year’s 4th of July. Continuing our national trend, this year’s celebration has gotten a bit more tense. We now have invented and baked in the country’s psyche the national notion that everything ante-bellum that was part of American history is fair game to be attacked, withdrawn, denied, silenced, or destroyed. The latest is the very familiar Betsy Ross flag, the first Stars and Stripes to grace our newborn country with its familiar ring of thirteen stars for the original thirteen colonies. No more.
Athletic products maker Nike released a celebratory model of one of its athletic shoes for the Fourth with the Betsy Ross flag embossed on the back of its heel. In response, the formerly famous Colin ‘Take a Knee’ Kaepernick protested that the flag was offensive to him because it was from a time and a country that still condoned slavery. Nike, along with a gaggle of distributors and retailers, immediately caved and withdrew the shoe with some BS message that (seat belts please) it didn’t want to offend America’s patriotic holiday.
Only Arizona’s governor Doug Ducey stood up say that his state no longer would seek to attract Nike, which was planning to build a manufacturing facility outside of Phoenix. Rebane Doctrine calls for other commercial enterprises with a patriotic backbone to immediately start placing the Betsy Ross flag on appropriate products in their offerings.
And in preparation for this holiday, the anti-American Left is decrying President Trump’s celebration of our Independence Day in our capital with an extraordinary patriotic display of our military and fireworks to remember. They are telling the country that this is “politicizing the Fourth”. It’s hard to tell whether their ignorance or cynicism is showing its true colors. The Fourth has ALWAYS been a political holiday ever since its political birth in 1776 Philadelphia. Every politician and political faction/party has made its presence known on the Fourth throughout our history, and the more so for politicians who were then in office.
All thinking Americans know that our Left in no way wants to omit politics from the Fourth. What all of them want is the Fourth to be restricted to express and display only their ideological messages and reinforce their narrative under the guise of being ‘non-partisan’. The only good thing about today is that they were not able to pull it off under this president.
[update] Our polarization was upped another notch with the three major networks – ABC, NBC, CBS – refusing to air the ‘Salute to America’ celebration on the National Mall. Why? Well, because it was conceived and promoted by President Trump. The national mood has divided so visibly that lamestream outlets no longer make any pretense of claiming to be non-partisan or hiding their longstanding promotion of all things Left. We are today two peoples forced to tolerate each other in a common land, with one side attempting to silence the other which simply wants to retain/regain the exceptional goodness of America. (more here)
The above prominent and proud display of America’s flags that includes the now proscribed (by the Left) Betsy Ross flag was evident during Obama’s inauguration. Today’s controversy over the Left’s rejection of America’s first flag underlines how our anti-American Democrats redefine the politically permissible to satisfy their narrative du jour. To them America and its history are malleable political artifacts that shape the attitudes of their constituents who know no better. This has been the usual practice under totalitarian communist regimes that Orwell also highlighted in his 1984. (more here). Meanwhile one of their prominent socialist candidates, Sen Cory Booker, shows his love of America with a political stunt by personally escorting illegal aliens across our southern border. (here) This is but the latest of the Democrats’ national anti-American policy of undermining our country’s sovereignty with their ongoing invitation to the world’s disaffected to illegally mass migrate through our southern border, thus overwhelming our border security apparatus configured for a much less porous border, and now vilified by the Democrats who created and now acknowledge this ‘humanitarian crisis’ while denying that it is also first and foremost a national security crisis.
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