I've upvoted this post and noticed for the 10-thousandth time that my voting power is so insignificant that you haven't earned one cent from my good opinion, alas. But I completely agree with your "editorial." Since America has lost its privilege, power, global status, and undeserved reputation as defender of the poor and oppressed, we must preserve the last bastion of our alleged liberty, “free speech.” Is it time to screen-shot the noble plaque at the base of “The Statue of Liberty” and hope that posterity may discover it in the rubble that appears to be our future? We now live in a country conceived by our Luciferian, landed gentry, Freemason forefathers who thought and wrote in brilliant complex sentences which can no longer be comprehended by today’s college graduates. (“Huh?”)
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
We are the aforementioned “homeless tempest-tossed,” dog-paddling to stay afloat as geoengineered weather disasters flood or burn what was formerly known as “the land of the free and the home of the brave.” I have just hoisted myself onto a passing boulder. The boulder rolled by in the floodwaters of the urban dams that were strategically lowered in Houston. The dams released enough water to destroy the remaining neighborhoods which had miraculously survived “Hurricane Harvey.” I whip out my trusty notepad because of the urgent need to respond to your post. Here’s my response:
“YOU’RE RIGHT!”
Truly you have nailed the crux of the matter with one exception. I do not ask the athletes to go back to the drawing board and find a form of protest that unifies the country. There is no such form. Conflicting ideas will always conflict. The athletes have chosen, IMHO, an unassailable gesture of respect and humility. Kneeling honors God and petitions God to intervene to save what is left of America.
RE: The National Anthem…Do you sit, kneel or stand?