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Monday, November 14, 2016

Another Misguided Message

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In recent news reality articles another sport remember decides to protest the election of our President-elect Donald Trump BUT in his rightful protest he chose the wrong way to convey the message by “Not standing at the National Anthem and Flag. He tries to explain it away by saing, and this is just one of his quotes in the article I read, the following:

He added, "It's not about the Republican Party or the Democratic Party or anything like that. It's just who he is. It's well-documented what he's done. I'm not going to stand for something I don't believe in. That's the end of that."

The National Anthem and the Raising of our flag has NOTHING to do with President-elect Trump, it has nothing to do with POLITICS or the POLITICAL ARENA for its symbolism transcends those things and it totally without a political agenda of any kind. It has nothing to do with PROTESTS OR PROTESTING of anything.

Our National Anthem and the Raising of our Flag are symbolic of an ideal America no matter its current state or how people conceive or perceive the state of America now. Add in that his protest was enacted at a function that specifically was about “Honoring or Veterans” further separates his protest intent from his actual beliefs, lets call his protest a model of “Cognitive Dissonance.” How do I know, because he had to try to explain it once his actions became public, because no one really understood and that is the public’s “Cognitive Dissonance” because of its confusion as to how his disregard and disrespect toward our nations anthem and flag didn’t trip the right movie scripts and tapes in our minds. We had to flounder around till he “Splained things.” 

There are so many other ways to protest things that would better serve and convey, without cognitive dissonance, our meaning and thus result in a positive change but this “Ain’t IT.”

As a veteran of the Marines I take homage against his protest, he is wrong and failed to inspire me toward any changes and only to take offense to his misuse of his right to protest. I am not a sport fan but when I experience such failure on their part to express themselves so inadequately and incorrectly that I am slowly losing any respect for sports and sport figures (who, by the way get paid way to much).

p.s. You had your chance and you didn’t vote - Hey dude, shut the fuck up and stand up when the flag is raised and the anthem played. 



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