dire indeed...
As one might expect, conservatives are the ones making the biggest stink over Colin Kaepernick’s National Anthem protest. A black athlete taking a stand against police brutality by refusing to participate in a costless gesture of patriotism? Yeah… it’s pretty obvious where their views stand.
Conservatives like to tell themselves they’re the most patriotic people in all the land. They pride themselves on their outward displays of empty, quasi-phony patriotic platitudes and their penchant for play-acting American exceptionalism, at least when it isn’t propping up any idea they don’t personally like.
READ MORE: http://firebrandleft.com/not-s...hings-conservatives/