I think it depends on the size of the flag. If its the size of a playing card I agree with you. Much ado about nothing. But those flags looked much larger. But I agree with you to a certain extent that some of this is demagoguery but so be it. The ends justifies the means and any means necessary is OK by me to defeat liberals.
“I think it depends on the size of the flag. If its the size of a playing card I agree with you. Much ado about nothing. But those flags looked much larger.”
My impression of this is that they were the standard mass produced hand-held size- if they were substantially larger than that, then that’s something different all together. What I’m saying, though, for instance, is that my local minor league baseball team hands out hand-held flags to every fan every 4th of July- thousands of them. After and during the game, most of them end up in the trash or abandoned somewhere, and I’m under no delusion that almost all of the ones that do make it home get tossed out either a few days later or in some future spring cleaning purge. And I’m not talking about a bunch of Lib Dems here- I’m talking about family-oriented baseball fans in a very Republican state. I think this is pretty typical of what happens to most of these flags after events like that.
“I agree with you to a certain extent that some of this is demagoguery but so be it. The ends justifies the means and any means necessary is OK by me to defeat liberals.”
I certainly agree with that- we all have to do what we have to do in order to win this thing- I just question whether this particular form of demagoguery is as effective as others could be, or if it could even be received negatively by those in the middle who have done the same thing themselves in the past.