DONALD J. TRUMP CONTINUES TO TAKE A DAILY SHIT ON THE FLAG, AMERICAN VALUES!

Trump's Phony Flag Love

Thirteen of the forty-five U.S. presidents served during my lifetime, 29% of the total.  I've no personal recollection of Harry S. Truman, but I've heard the proverbial buck stopped at his desk and that he ordered up the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to save lives.

About the time I was asking for a Davy Crockett coonskin cap, Dwight D. Eisenhower was president.  The Weekly Reader, distributed to all the kids in my school spoke of Eisenhower's victory over Adlai Stevenson while Life Magazine quoted Eisenhower's warning about the dangers of the "industrial-military complex."

Those were years of compulsory patriotism, saluting the flag, standing for the national anthem.  Before the wide use of motherfucker, the worst thing you could say about a person is that they were a communist, with nigger and nigger lover coming in second and third.

Yet, as much as we thought we knew about democracy, freedom, the First Amendment and the Constitution, we knew nothing.  Our understanding of what freedom, patriotism, civil  and First Amendment rights actually included was greatly expanded as millions protested a war based on lies and millions of others asserted their right not to be judged solely by the color of their skin.

Donald J. Trump wants to take the U.S. back to that time of ignorance, prejudice and lies, hypocritically wrapping himself in the sacred cloth, while displaying zero understanding of the values represented by that emblem.

Make no mistake: when Trump wages a daily war against a free press, embraces neo-Nazis, consistently spouts racist views, insults military heroes and Gold Star families, lies daily to the American people, tramples on the First Amendment, advocates torture of political prisoners, he SHITS on the flag.