# I wish the American flag wasn't co-opted by the right wing **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 19, 2022, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-the-american-flag-wasnt-co-opted-by-the-right-wing/963081 "2022-04-19T20:52:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-the-american-flag-wasnt-co-opted-by-the-right-wing/963081/61 "2022-04-26T14:32:01Z")
Or -depending on where you are-give them the old backward peace sign. Most folks don’t know the meaning outside the US. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-the-american-flag-wasnt-co-opted-by-the-right-wing/963081/62 "2022-04-26T14:58:25Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Now? I don’t dare fly it, not even on the Fourth of July. How comme? Have neighbours commented on it? ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-the-american-flag-wasnt-co-opted-by-the-right-wing/963081/63 "2022-04-26T15:53:43Z")
> [@BrickBat](#): > > I like that, as it seems you nailed it in a condense manner Oops, I meant “condensed”. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-the-american-flag-wasnt-co-opted-by-the-right-wing/963081/64 "2022-04-26T15:57:03Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > Should I assume that they are racists, plotting violence? Just the vanguard of the Mexican invasion Trump has been warning about for years. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2022, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-the-american-flag-wasnt-co-opted-by-the-right-wing/963081/65 "2022-04-28T13:48:11Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > I still love my country, and I wish I could fly an American flag You can. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2022, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-the-american-flag-wasnt-co-opted-by-the-right-wing/963081/66 "2022-04-28T23:57:26Z")
Get a USA with the gold fringe around it and watch them lose their frigging minds. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2022, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-the-american-flag-wasnt-co-opted-by-the-right-wing/963081/67 "2022-04-29T18:34:23Z")
> [@Bonum\_Legatum](#): > > Sigh. And I LIKED the “Betsy Ross” flag - if only from a design perspective… I do, too, and for its history. Don’t let anyone take it away from you. I just saw a news report mentioning the aircraft carrier USS _George Washington_, and the ship was flying a giant Betsy Ross flag, as it happens. Glad to see it! > **[Betsy Ross flag](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betsy_Ross_flag)** > > The Betsy Ross flag is a reconstructed early design for the flag of the United States, which is conformant to the Flag Act of 1777 and has red stripes outermost and stars arranged in a circle. These details elaborate on the 1777 act, passed early in the American Revolutionary War, which specified 13 alternating red and white horizontal stripes and 13 white stars in a blue canton. Its name stems from the story, once widely believed, that shortly after the 1777 act, upholsterer and flag maker Be... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-the-american-flag-wasnt-co-opted-by-the-right-wing/963081.md?page=3)