Politics and Government in America

It turns out that Texas is not as patriotic as you might think. In two separate stories that have broke this week it appears that patriotism is being attacked in Texas. In Dallas, a disabled veteran has been threatened with having his car towed and fined by his local homeowners association for proudly displaying Marine Corp stickers on his car. The homeowners association has determined that his stickers constitute an advertisement, although his neighbors bumper stickers supporting Barack Obama do not.

Meanwhile in Mansfield Texas, a woman was forced to take down the flag which she had hung in her office when the hospital that she works at received complaints from one of her co-workers. The woman who complained had actually immigrated to the United States from Western Africa, but found the symbol of the country she chose to live in to be offensive. Hospital administrators argued that the flag being displayed outside the building should be satisfactory.

So what we have here is two separate incidents where patriotic Americans have been told that supporting their country and it’s military is not acceptable. Where is this coming from? It’s real simple, we have a president who is running around the world apologizing for America and telling the rest of the world what a rotten place he thinks America is. Meanwhile his followers are ready to elevate him even higher the president. Even Thomas of Newsweek told Chris Matthews “I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God…He’s the teacher. He is going to say, ‘now, children, stop fighting and quarreling with each other.’ And he has a kind of a moral authority that he – he can – he can do that.” So does it surprise anyone that when we have a bunch of people thinking that the president is the Messiah and he hates America, that his followers are going to feel empowered to attack those of us who were proud of our country before last year?

It’s time to wake up and get back to the things that made our country what it is. Smaller government, pride in what we have accomplished, individual achievement, an acceptance of all people, and an understanding of what principles made us what we are. Freedom takes work and it takes responsibility. We don’t need a nanny to take care of us. The American people can do a better job looking after ourselves the the government can. It just requires convincing America of that.