Its a symbol of the ideas this country was founded upon. Nothing more, nothing less.
You can rally around it, or you can turn your back on it.
I'll suport the ideas upon which America was founded, thank you very much.
There are plenty of other places folks who fail to rally can go. They should start on that trek as soon as possible.
I'm thinking of a place where you can go right about now....
It's like this. The Flag belongs to us and the government is invited to participate in its correct usage, but only to a very limited degree. The US Supreme Court failed to recognize that and totally discredited any legitimacy it might have in questions about that matter, or in many other matters. It would be better to have our nation and the Flag than to have the Supreme Court in fact.
Some of us feel that it's not a mere symbol - that it is, in fact, literally the fabric of our nation, and that insults to it are life and death issues.