The American flag should unite, not divide us, Gov. DeSantis. Take a cue from Sears
Whats built into a flag?
A whole lot of emotion, history and, in Florida these days, questionable patriotism.
Gov. Ron DeSantis is using Old Glory to make a political statement, igniting a partisan battle in the state over whether the flag at the Capitol should be flown at half-staff in honor of controversial hard-right talk-show host Rush Limbaugh.
As a matter of personal ethics, Id rather not write about a person who has died if I dont have anything good to say although I do make exceptions for dictators. And, this time, Ill make an exception for Limbaugh, who died last week from lung cancer. By spreading the bigotry he carried in his heart against immigrants and Hispanics, specifically he carved for hate speech a political platform in this country.
Its wrong for the governor, who is catering to the extremist elements in the Republican Party, to honor Limbaugh with a symbol as powerful as the U.S. flag flying at the state Capitol in Tallahassee.
Its especially tone deaf after the Stars and Stripes was so abhorrently desecrated during the recent attack on the Capitol by a white supremacist mob.
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