The right way to honor the country

Courtesy of a high school softball game in Fresno.  Donald McClarey has the lowdown.  That's the way we do it. There is a movement that would have America be gone.  Resist by insisting the old America was the good America - for all its woes and failures - and we're not about to throw the baby out with the bathwater.  It might only be the National Anthem, but it speaks volumes.

The wrong way, of course, is demonstrated by Mark Shea, who uses the opportunity of Memorial Day to score points against what he calls the Alt Right  (not, it should be noted, including the Alt-Left).  Mark now openly admits he will vote for and support the pro-abortion/assisted suicide/gay marriage/embryonic stem cell research/compromise religious liberty for contraception/punish those Christians who dissent from liberalism party.  But apparently it only jeopardizes one's salvation when you support a party that advocates intrinsic evils when it isn't the Democratic Party.

In following this course, Mark embraces the same attitude hoisted by the modern Left, and demonstrated by those like Colin Kaepernick,   There is no such thing as Our country, there sure as hell is no such thing as Your evil country, there's only My country when it finally lives up to my lofty standards.  The way we tell the difference is not over religious or ethnic or national origin, but over failure to conform to a particular political-social agenda.

Sorry, I'll take the Fresno model.  That way I don't have to be perfect to justify the demands for perfection that I put on my own nation.  I simply join hands with fellow Americans and work to love our country, though we might disagree on different issues - even passionately.  Democrats, liberals, atheists - this is our country.  And as long as they don't seek to divide and destroy the nation that gave us the right to rise up and protest, I'll be happy to find common cause with all who seek to build our nation and not tear it down.  And that, Charlie Brown, is what National Anthems are for.