This. No political party or position owns the flag. It’s my flag too, and I’ll wave it when and if I want to.
Which, admittedly, has mostly been at political protests in combination with a sign making it clear what my position is.
But if you own a camper trailer that has a huge flag mural down the entire side, with an angry eagle? And if the roof had the stupid ass blue line flag? How about then? 
I saw that on a FB group. I wanted to post "How to say “I am a trump republican” without saying “I am a trump republican.” " but I didn’t.
Was left wing people flying the UN flag in the 80s/90s a thing? I vaguely remember that.
Runyon’s law:
The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong, but that’s the way to bet.
Indeed, and I would say that historically the USA’s high regard for its flag (and therefore planting it in every class room and politician’s office) is an outlier on the international stage.
It’s a sign of the disturbing underbelly of the current UK government that they have started appearing on zoom calls and in PR photos with Union Jacks constantly on show. This is new, and I don’t like it one bit for the very deliberate message it’s sending out to the right wing.
Co-opting the American flag goes back a long way. I seem to recall it was done in the 1960s by those in favor of the Vietnam War. It apparently goes back even further. In 1939, a pro-Nazi group used an American flag and 30-foot banner of George Washington at its rally:
Whether you can do this depends on your own safety.
When Ms. Napier put an Obama bumper sticker on her car, she was soon run off the road by a yelling man in an old pickup truck. She almost got hurt.
A friend of mine who was very publicly liberal lost his several dogs to poisoned meat thrown over his fence. He never knew for sure what the motive was but guessed it was probably his politics.
We used to get campaign signs to put in our yard, but within a day or two they were always taken. Local Republicans in our area have been photographed stealing Democratic signs at night and our best guess is that that’s what happened to ours.
I don’t think we’re really just opponents in the traditional political sense any more. I think we have become enemies in the last few years. Given uncertainty and some deniability in many of these situations, we all just have to consider our own safety as best as we are able.
I think it’s unsafe, and unwise for people with family to protect, not to suspect others of being enemies on the basis of their American flags.
My “Vets for Obama” sign was stolen off my front lawn back in the 2008 election on the second night it was out. Thankfully I had a second sign. I reported the theft to the police* who actually stepped up driving by my house. The second sign lasted to election day.
*not a police report, that would have been a waste of time
Absolutely. It’s unfortunate that these things have to be considered, but they always should be.
In my community, this is untrue. But mine isn’t yours.
I remember reading a newspaper column long ago (by Erma Bombeck?) about a woman who flew an American flag at her house on certain holidays, i.e. the Fourth of July and Memorial Day, during the Vietnam War.
Right-wingers assumed she was gung-ho for the war and praised her. Left-wingers assumed the same thing and vilified her. Both were wrong.
Moral of the story: people read way too much into a simple patriotic display.
I have neighbors who are originally from Russia. They traditionally display a US flag on every holiday. Lately they’ve been displaying the US flag and the flag of Ukraine. I don’t think I have to be concerned about their views.
The Stars and Stripes is a national flag. It belongs to everyone. Fly it with pride no matter what others say.
I’ve been interested in flags since I was a Boy Scout and first learned about flag history; it struck me from a very young age how much symbolism and emotion can be packed into a windblown piece of colored fabric, for better and (too often) for worse. I now have a collection of several dozen U.S. and other flags. These days I’m flying the flag of the 1st U.S. Volunteers, Theodore Roosevelt’s regiment: Rough Riders Flag (the Flag Guys, linked here, are a good source for flags, BTW).
I like the idea of pairing your American flag with another flag - your state or city flag, a Pride flag, a political or organizational flag, a pirate flag, or whatever. I’d ask only that you make sure the American flag is in the place of honor, to your right as you look out at the street, as the U.S. Flag Code suggests.
As What_Exit wrote, and as a Democrat down to my toes, I don’t assume that flying an American flag = MAGA, and God willing, that day will never come.
The flag is every American’s flag. It’s the MAGAts’ flag, but it’s mine, too. They can’t stop me from flying it.
The thin blue line flag previously mentioned is the obvious-to-me MAGA version.
We fly the flag on holidays only. I think this sends a message of patriotism tempered by moderation. However, the American flag’s symbolism is vague enough that others can’t be expected to perceive that message. Not a problem for me.
I can’t worry about what total strangers think about me on the basis of zero evidence.
The U.S. flag.
The Gadsden flag.
The “OK” hand gesture.
LIberals surrender territory far to easily. You are allowing incels, living in their parents’ basements, far too much control over your behavior.
The U.S. flag should be flown by anyone who has positive feelings about the U.S.
The Gadsden flag should be flown by anyone protesting against a government policy they disapprove.
The OK sign means that you are in a condition you consider to be favorable.
If people you disagree with think they own them, they are wrong.
I don’t recall ever seeing that practice during those eras.
I see that one as the Black Lives Don’t Matter one. It’s from the people who can never simply reply: “Why yes, yes they do.” when presented with the phrase Black Lives Matter. The best they can muster is a contradictory, subject changing, concept stealing Blue Lives Matter.
In fact, I can find no references to this practice at all on the interwebs.
I would not assume these things do to a national flag. Maybe a different one or Maga hat.
Yep. And IMO it exists and should be displayed in its proper colors. The black “thin line” flags are annoying for reasons bobot stated well.