Why do people put big American flags

[crabsley]

In the back of their truck and go down the road. Don't they know they are in America?

[metroins]

1. I see nothing wrong with it

They love America.

I don't do it, but we have a big American flag outside our house.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

10. Your house is the proper place for a large flag.

It amazes me how raggedy those hanging from the backs of pickup trucks get. This passes for respect of the flag?

[metroins]

32. I've never seen them raggedy

But I've only seen them on the road, not up close.

[atreides1]

13. I respectfully disagree!

I don't believe they love America! What they love is their concept of what America should be! What about those who fly both the American and Confederate flags, side by side, do they love America, or their idea of what America should be!

And what of those who fly the Star and Stripes alongside the many variations of Nazi flags, do they love America, or their view of what America should be?

As a vet I don't believe that anyone who flies the American flag that is dirty and torn, is showing their love of America, they fly it to show off!

Do you keep your flag flying 24/7, if you do, do you maintain a light on it during the hours of darkness? Do you fly the correct flag in inclement weather, when you have to dispose of your flag, do you follow the proper procedures?

[crabsley]

15. I absolutely 100 % agree atreides 1

Very well said

[metroins]

30. Reread the OP

Then read yours. You're projecting so much into something that's not there and stereotyping.

All the OP says is people flying flags in their trucks.

I think it's patriotic.

And to answer your question, yes 24/7, yes a light on it, no I don't change it. I clean it, and Austin Texas doesn't have inclement weather. I don't change it when it rains.

[tonyt53]

20. It bothers me more more when they also have a Confederate flag flying with it.

See that all the time.

[metroins]

31. That bothers me as well nt

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Your flag decal won't get you into Heaven anymore . . . . .

[Mika]

3. Because, by ANY measure, the USofA is the greatest country in the world.

[crabsley]

9. Then why do the repugs want

To make America great again?

[monmouth4]

4. I've always thought of it as mostly "Look at me, I'm more patriotic than you" sort of thing..n/t

[Aristus]

24. That's all it is.

For people like that, 'patriotism' is a blood sport...

[Ilsa]

29. Just like the hand over heart during the anthem whereas standing

at attention is protocol.

I can't wait to see what patriotic contortions will be required in the future to prove our allegiance.

[JustAnotherGen]

5. Good question

I think it is ignorant ball throwing as they usually have REALLY big tires on their trucks too (where I live) . . .

Me - I was raised right - so my flag at night has a sensor solar light on it.

You ever notice how at night they don't light up their flag in the back of their truck as is how it should be done? They never 'lower' it.

[crabsley]

7. most of the ones that I have seen

Have really been tattered and torn from the wind. And they usually have a yellow "dont tread on me " beside it.

[Frank Cannon]

19. Absolutely. They are always in terrible shape.

I actually thought of going around town, taking pictures of these messed up flags, then posting them in a full page ad in the newspaper with a caption reading: "THE FLAG: TAKE IT SERIOUSLY, OR TAKE IT DOWN." It would be worth the expense just to hear heads blowing up all over town.

Seriously, would you hang your Sunday church clothes up in the back of your truck to get ripped and covered with mud and road grime? Of course not! These people have no fucking respect.

[crabsley]

25. OYEZ

Hear ye Hear ye

[unblock]

6. my patriotism goes to eleven!

[sarae]

8. It always seems a little jingoistic to me...

but then it is much better than flying a Trump flag.

I saw a guy in a big gas-guzzling Hummer with a HUGE Trump/Pence flag streaming behind it yesterday...

[pangaia]

11. Same thing.

[Glassunion]

12. I say the same for the Canadians too.

[The2ndWheel]

14. Probably just to get your goat

Why does anyone put anything on their car?

[Brother Buzz]

16. On the upside, we're seeing fewer fucking yellow ribbons on the gas-guzzling SUV's

[LeftinOH]

17. What else is a pickup truck for?

[NuclearDem]

18. Who cares?

As long as they're not hurting anyone doing it, I don't give a crap.

[Siwsan]

21. Some are so ragged I worry they will rip off and land across my windshield

And I usually (and perhaps unjustly) tend to equate people who put those flags on their cars/trucks with people at Trump rallies who wear gaudy clothing made to look like they are covered head to toe in stars and stripes. Because of my bumper stickers, I won't park my car by them and I get a little uncomfortable if I see them in my rear view mirror.

I hope that doesn't make me a bad person.

[Brickbat]

22. Who cares?

[LanternWaste]

23. Seems reasonable to conclude anyone posting in this thread

Seems reasonable to conclude anyone posting in this thread does to one extent or another.

[saidsimplesimon]

26. K&R

Anyone remember the days when the flag was not to touch the ground, to remain in the rain, or displayed on a truck as a tattered symbol? Where did these people attend school? Surely, it was not a public school?

I object to the Eisenhower added words to the Pledge of Allegiance, "under God". It is my right to refuse to use them.

http://publications.usa.gov/epublications/ourflag/flaglaws1.htm

[liberal N proud]

27. These are generally Trump supporters

I realize this practice has gone on for some time, but these are the type of people who support Trump.

They feel that everyone in America is not American except for them. They are gun toatting white supremacists with coal rolling diesels who don't care what anyone this or what they are doing to the environment.

[randr]

28. Patriotism--Last refuge of a scoundrel--Twain

[redstatebluegirl]

34. Where we live you see two flags together, the confederate and the American. It annoys me.

[demigoddess]

35. as a military brat , I just hate seeing torn and tattered flags flying down the road

and hanging on flagpoles over night. My dad would spin in his grave as well. You don't leave a flag out overnight. You don't leave it hanging from a truck or car all tattered to pieces. That's my feeling.

[ileus]

36. Why do people put those silly coexist stickers on their vehicles. Don't they know

they're in America where we have religious freedom and actually coexist?

[Blue_Tires]

37. I'd rather see that than the confederate flag

which I still see all too often around here in summer

[Throd]

38. Probably just to piss you off.

[Jamaal510]

39. That's not as

crazy-looking as one person who I saw in Humboldt with both a Bernie sticker and a Tea Party sticker on his ride. How can somebody support both Bernie AND the Tea Party?

[krispos42]

40. It's the visual equivalent of shouting "You Ess Ayy"

The size of the flag is directly proportional to how much it can negate discussion.

[GeorgeGist]

41. My guess is that their white privilege ...

failed them.