You are certainly entitled to your opinion. But to force your opinion on others is as reprehensible as anything this regime has conjured up in the bowels of Hades. The Confederate battle flag is as much a part of our history as the Gadsden Flag or the Fort McHenry flag. Ignore your history and you will be condemned to repeat it.
Do you really believe the 50 star, 13 stripe flag is the American flag. I disagree most strenuously. America ceased to exist the day the half breed boy first turned his back on the Constitution. We now live in Acirema, where the guilty are rewarded and the innocent are punished. Fly the flag if you must; but be sure it is upside down. For if the republic were ever in danger, it is today.
Nitpicky, but I am curious about the grammar. Your sentence reads well, but I wonder if "If the republic WAS" is better grammar, since it is a singular object.