Perhaps, but see, you can actually criticize him on merits, not on some nonsense like lack of familiarity with the government bureaucracy. Well done this time
Make too much money from Conservatives down here to move lol. But the second I can land a similar paying job in Colorado, I'm out of this red neck bug infested, moron driver, blue hair, hell hole. But till then, I happily take conservatives money from them and ply my trade which makes them even more money and happy.
I do not know if burning flags would improve conditions as they wishes it to become, I guess they only have to enforce to improve and innovate laws to promote what they desire. http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/federal-antidiscrimination-laws-29451.html
And even they didn't succeed. It is strange part for me too. It looks like all those counterprotesters knew beforehand what was going to happen ane yet didn't stop it.
"Rights" for minorities is always about hypocrisy. Flag burning is one of them. I'd be curious if any Mexican flags are waved this weekend, would those people be treated the same as when Americans wave the US flag on cinco de mayo. I'll wager a big fat no. The Mexican flag is protected and the US flag is designed to be mocked.
I don't know if you've looked at your population, but the fact is that most conservative are of the old generation and they are dying off. The young are massively left leaning. The good old days aren't comming back.
or the irony, that american flags were banned from schools on cinco de mayo because school officials were worried it would inflame and demean the mexican students in the schools... so kids who wanted to wear american flag shirts were told to go home that day, or turn their shirt inside-out so it can't be seen... what a free country we live in, where only some people get rights now through accepted discrimination, how far we have come lol...
when you say, the good old days... you mean the good old days when democrats ran the south and enslaved people? and there are a LOT of young conservatives, even among all the liberals indoctrinated in schools today... unfortunately they've learned they must keep their heads down and not speak up, because they will be ridiculed and ostracized for daring to challenge a teacher... they learn this early on... if you want an example of age in democrats versus republicans, just take a look at the candidates running... look how much younger the conservatives are than the democrats... and then look past that, look at the current leadership elected, it seems the democrats are awfully old and dying off, while the conservatives are replacing each other with younger and younger ones... I think you got this backwards... just because liberals are so loud, doesn't mean conservatives don't exist among them, they are just more reserved and conserving themselves...
this would actually be an interesting experiment... find a flag that would somehow identify each group based on race, sexuality, politics... and we burn them one by one, and see how people react to each symbol being burned... see if rage is applied equally or if america really is full of a bunch of people who are only looking out for themselves... because if america is working, we should all be outraged at all of them burning, but I think we already know that won't occur... so it'd be interesting to see how things are divided, is it purely down political beliefs for a line, will it be by race, will it be by sexuality... so many interesting things we could find out from a psychological standpoint... I think it would be interesting to see what percentages of people care about burning political parties flags... compared to all the others, I have a feeling people won't be shocked or care at all... but yet we've all so divisive when it comes to politics, very interesting stuff... we can put hate aside to burn a political flag, but any other moment we're ready to kill each other...
I have no doubts that blacks in the USA are bigger racists than whites. We've got the same situation in the UK. Blacks hatred towards whites is tangible. However I just made the point that the USA has got hell of a lot of problems. Not like some deluded posters would like us to believe that everything is fine. It's not. The country could easily break down into smaller parts within next 10 years. Maybe even earlier if a psychopath Hillary wins the election.
No I mean the golden year of conservativism in the USA, that is, the post WW2 to mid 60's. The "Father knows best" years... They may be a lot of young conservative, but they aren't the majority and if you don't know, majorities wins elections. So as the years move on, they'll be less and less conservative in the general population. As for the age of the leadership, it is totally irrelevent. The democrats elected both kennedy, bill clinton and Obama who were younger than their adversaries. People chose who they want to represent them based on many things, age being the least important unless it's extreme like McCain. You should really study your demographics if you believe the young are right leaning in the USA...
So do you think an influx of poor, uneducated non English speaking illegal immigrants are a boom or a problem for the country? Let's be honest here. You'll be hard pressed to find an illegal who can actually afford to live here much less, have skills that a few 100 million citizens already have. So why do you seem giddy about the prospect of our country crumbling from within by allowing them to come and demonizing anyone who dares to point out the obvious?
I understand why these vets confronted the flag burners. On the other hand, freedoms is the bigger issue. Banning the Confederate Flag, for instance. Or banning the American Flag in schools on Mexican holidays.
I have studied my demographics... thats why I know the path to becoming a conservative usually starts out with a youth who was once liberal... perhaps you should follow that trend from liberal to conservative as people age and grow and turn into conservatives heh... they start out their lives talking about how much they are going to change things and be different, and we all need to do our parts... and slowly as they go through life working and starting families all they see is taking and taking from their paychecks... and slowly they change much a caterpillar into a butterfly who wants the freedom to fly instead of forced to crawl in the meager existence they are told they can have with liberals... so I'm very aware of how most conservatives come to be, they aren't born into it, they are, to steal some liberal words, trans-political and morphing into conservatives... thats why liberals always find something new to be outraged about, they have to keep rebuilding their numbers and indoctrinating kids into their way of thinking through the education system, which ironically used to be full of conservatives but liberals were smart enough to realize this was a good place to exert control, very good move over time to gain power, its worked out well for them... you are right though, majorities do rule and speak up, thats why republicans took over the house and senate from democrats... I'm not really sure what point you're trying to make here, that future elections will be won, when the time is right?? if there were so many young liberals who actually voted, republicans wouldn't exist today period... because there are enough young people in your scenario to easily blow out of the waters any conservative... so if they are the majority, why have they not spoken? I mean look at madison, the Berniemister was able to get 10k youngins to show up for an old fart, but yet another old fart, Hillary, could only get a fraction of that... so perhaps its not "democrats" who are coming to power, because Hillary should have been able to draw the same massive crowd if it was democrats drawing people... hmmm I guess we'll have to dig deeper and wonder why one democrat could and one democrat could not... I mean how else do we explain why so few democrats are even willing to run, because Hillary is the best choice they have? I think there are FAR better candidates who could run, but yet they don't... isn't that interesting... other democrats who dipped their feet in before declaring, didn't get a very warm welcome either, interesting...
And you better hope they don't have continued success. Because you will lose your freedoms. The State will steal your money, your land, your business, your speech. You will have nothing.
I think I can explain this for him... because he said democrats are coming into power thanks to the youth vote... so they will solve the problems of depressed wages and competition from illegals lowering those wages even further with their simple solution... they'll hike the minimum wage because magically economics will go right out the window and be replaced with good feelings about doing the right thing and that will override centuries of capitalism... rewriting the very physics of cause and effect... no longer will prices rise once you raise costs, they will magically implode on themselves and the entire nation will rise up above the current available wealth inside it... I love talking to people who think "rebalancing" wealth will solve the problem... I ask them how much wealth they think is in america currently, and then ask them to divide that by 350 million people... is anyone rich... no there actually isn't that much wealth in america, if we took 100% of what rich people have, when we average that out it doesn't make everyone rich or middle class... because we funnel our money out of the country and end up raising up their economies and poor, and until we address that (as much as I hate donald trump, he's right) we won't be able to lift wages or the middle class... as long as we drain our economy out of the country, we can't lift up the middle, its a never ending spiral down currently... we need to make what we consume, thats how america became rich, because we recycled those dollars back into our country, instead of draining them out into the economies of other countries boosting the wealth of their residents at the expense of our own... its not political, its not personal, its just simple economics when we follow the path of a dollar... the more you circulate it around a local economy, the more everyone makes and has, the more those dollars drain out, the less wealth and things people have... not rocket science, its just a dollar... (I've rambled on again to myself, I do that sometimes)
Bingo. NAFTA although amazing for a select few and on its face "great" for everyone, was a disaster for probably a 1/4 of the country. Cheap crap made in other countries destroyed what we excelled in. It's benefited the democrats greatly because it allows them to demonize republicans and keep their own voting block desperate.
I think burning a flag is an insult, regardless of who's flag it is...the same as a cartoon against Muslims is an insult. What happened to plain decency and a respect towards others...or are those days gone forever? Did anyone think that if they weren't gone those churches wouldn't have been set on fire? How about we have a reset of our society, before a revolution sets in...or is that too much to ask, especially by a President and Congress who seem to be more intent on retaining our hegemony, than retaining our country.