In A Healthy Country, Olympic Athletes Who Disrespect The Flag Would Be Kicked Off The Team

Daily Wire ^ | 28 June 2021 | Matt Walsh

[Rummyfan]

The Roman philosopher Cicero once said that gratitude is the parent of all virtues. It’s not difficult to see how this would be true. Gratitude is a virtue which contains many other virtues. In order to be truly grateful to someone, or for something, you must also be humble, prudent and kind. Gratitude is the sister of generosity — the latter in the giving, the former in the receiving. If one is present in an interaction but not the other, there is a risk that soon both will be lost. Anyone who has ever tried to be consistently generous to a habitually ungrateful person knows how quickly generosity can morph into resentment if you aren’t careful.

This is why, as parents, we spend so much time teaching gratitude to our kids. After you take your child out for ice cream, or to the zoo, or put dinner on the table, there is that common refrain: “What do you say?” The child, prompted, shouts: “Thank you!” One day, hopefully, he will not need to be prompted anymore. In the meantime, you solicit the “thank you” not merely to teach good manners — though that is part of it — but on a deeper level, to inculcate a sense of gratitude in a child who, left to his own devises, will naturally take most things for granted. We teach gratitude not for our sake, but for theirs. Raise your child to be grateful and you will have raised him to be happy, well adjusted, and successful.

It is, then, no surprise that in a country where so many people are angry and depressed, there is also such a catastrophic lack of gratitude. Which brings us, finally, to Olympic athlete Gwen Berry...

[Rummyfan]

She dissed her teammates too.

[lightman]

At least all of her fingers are clenched.

/s

[Alberta's Child]

She looks like Farina from the old Little Rascals episodes.

[Rummyfan]

Of course, in a healthy country, an Olympic athlete who turns her back on her own flag would be kicked off the team and publicly reviled and shamed as the disgraceful, embarrassing jackass that she is. But we are not a healthy country, so instead she will be lionized as some kind of civil rights hero, standing up against oppression. What sort of oppression? What precisely is she so angry about? In what specific way has this person been at all victimized? What has America done to her to provoke her scorn? No clear answer is ever given to any of these questions. Indeed, many people claim to have deep grievances against the United States, yet few of them can ever explain what the grievance is, exactly. That’s probably because their grievance doesn’t stem from anything external. The source is internal, emanating from their own pathological ingratitude.

[The_Media_never_lie]

In A Healthy Country, Olympic Athletes Who Disrespect The Flag Would Be Kicked Off The Team

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Corollary: In probably what is the sickest country on the globe, this athlete who disrespected the flag and the country, will most likely be gifted a shoe endorsement worth millions. Just downright perverse!

[rovenstinez]

just getting her ready for a run for U.S.Senate in the State of Washington.

[Alberta's Child]

In a healthy country, athletes who compete for the “national team” would actually represent the country and not a bunch of corporate sponsors and TV networks.

[HighSierra5]

I happened to catch the para Olympics yesterday at a friend’s house and was perplexed as to why a swimmer who happened to be black win the trials for breast stroke. He seemed perfectly normal and beat everyone else by a mile. Totally bogus.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Yes, but look around, does this look like a healthy country to you?

[CapnJack]

Who cares about the Olympics. Havent watch it in 20+ years.

It’s all personal interest stories, an I’m sure this year it will be all about BLM and how “evil” America is on what ever network carries it.

[a fool in paradise]

Keep her on the team, she can play Hammer and Sickle Catch.

[lee martell]

She was THATCLOSE to Mooning The Flag!

[a fool in paradise]

Farina "was" a Republican.

[SteelPSUGOP]

These days I expect athletes to have some platform or whatever......I don’t care.

What is a bit maddening is she was shocked and surprised they played the national anthem. Was she expecting Happy Birthday or what.

I don’t care if the athletes respect the flag or not, but they shouldn’t be morons.

[a fool in paradise]

[stanne]

I will not watch one second of the olympics if they don’t kick her off the team today.

[mac_truck]

Time to tell the truth about that photo which was taken during a delay in the proceedings.

[Rummyfan]

I will not watch one second of the olympics if they don’t kick her off the team today.

I'm with you!

[frnewsjunkie]

Irefn a healthy country, rioters destroying cities would be arrested and tried.
In a healthy country a political party taking over the government by falsify an election, would be guilty of treason.

[rfp1234]

What do other countries do? Are we the only morons who tolerate this?