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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe Should Fly Our Flag At Half Staff......
for the death of democracy.
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We Should Fly Our Flag At Half Staff...... (Original Post)
global1
Oct 2018
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brooklynite
(94,520 posts)1. Unless you believe in zombies, "death" is final...
I'm not joining the "we're doomed!" chorus.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)2. This may cheer him up....a wise, old man says...
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,683 posts)3. We're doomed.
That is, if we think we are and act accordingly.
Aristus
(66,328 posts)4. The courthouse in Portland, Oregon was flying the flag at half-staff yesterday.
Portland is a very liberal city. I hope it was because of the SCOTUS debacle.
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)5. Some at DU reported doing this at start of Iraq war
displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)6. IKEA in Emeryville, CA was flying it's flags at half staff today.
Both the CA state flag and the US flag. No idea why.
BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)7. And upside down...we are a country in great distress!
liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)8. Flags were at half staff yesterday (why I do not know)
I daughter and wife asked why, I told them it was because of the death of our nation.
Funtatlaguy
(10,870 posts)9. Upside down signals distress.