Can the American Flag be Politicized?

From my Facebook page, toned-down and slightly expanded.

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Some know-nothing at the New York Times claimed that conservatives have politicized the American flag. That's quite a trick! How can you politicize what is already and inherently political? Can you 'meteorologize' the weather? The American flag is a POLITICAL symbol. What it stands for is a political entity. It stands for the American POLITY. "The Republic for which it [the flag] stands" -- to borrow a formulation from the Pledge of Allegiance -- is constitutionally-based, and that constitution includes POLITICAL statements among which are ones that state what the government may and may not do. For example, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion . . ." (from the First Amendment).

 

The American flag cannot be politicized. It is a political symbol and what it symbolizes is not politically neutral. If you don't like the political arrangement that the flag stands for, a constitutionally-based republic, then you should say that and own up to being anti-American. But Democrats and other leftists are not known for their honesty, Orwellian abusers of language that they are.