Drunken Flag-Waving Young Republican Neighbors In My Little Blue Town.

[byronius]

He of the 6-foot by 9-foot 'MCCAIN/PALIN' sign nailed to his porch during the election was outside all afternoon, sitting in his speedboat parked out on the street, obviously drunk off his ass.

He had a huge American flag on a long wooden pole, and was trying to touch everyone who passed by with it, in sort of a drunken sarcastic threatening fashion. Bicyclists would have to detour into the street, pedestrians as well -- The Jerk seemed to think of the flag as his own private anti-liberal weapon.

I didn't bother saying anything, not even when he tried to drag the flag across my windshield -- until I was out front, and saw him drag the flag on the asphalt. He was chatting with his fellow Freepers, still waving the flag back and forth -- on the ground.

'Hey! Don't let that flag touch the ground!' I said, loudly. He didn't understand me, but pretended to. 'Great day for it!' he answered.

I let it go. He was obviously expressing his personal pain, just like with the giant McCain sign, and proving without a doubt that he was as ignorant as he could be. Like an all-day anti-Republican comedy sketch.

Later, I found myself wondering why that boy is still out of uniform. 'Higher priorities', I'll bet, but all gung-ho on Memorial Day, 'cause it's a Republican Holiday, after all, you know. And for all his assumptions that liberals hate and fear the American flag, and hate the military, I'm damned certain that I know volumes more about the Massacre At Malmedy, or MacArthur's brilliant tactics on the battlefields of WWI France, or the flight of Washington through the streets of New York City than this drunken young buffoon does.

I was at a Move America Forward counter-demonstration a few years ago, and saw a similar thing -- a drunken young asshole dragging the flag on the ground. When the progressive demonstrators yelled at him, he responded by putting the pole between his legs, and leering as he dragged the US flag back and forth across the dirty sidewalk.

To the Right-Winger, the flag isn't a symbol of Freedom; it's a penis, that they want to touch everyone with. Very porn-based behavior.

And nothing says 'Repressed' like a fake weaponized flag-penis to me.

Everyone who had to dodge it had the same thought, from the expression on their faces. Some right-wingers are the best progressive advertisement money can't buy. Like Stephen Colbert on steroids.

[Echo In Light]

1. "A flag is a symbol, and I leave symbols to the symbol-minded" - G.Carlin

[HopeHoops]

2. Yeah, the Right-Wingers in my neighborhood couldn't even be bothered to put a flag OUT yesterday!

It was all the Obama houses that had flags out!

[Tempest]

3. You should have called the cops

Drunk and disorderly, public drunkeness and if he was an asshole to the cops, they could get him for operating a motor vehicle (the boat) while impaired.

And he was obviously being a public nuisance in the way he was poking the flag at people and cars.

You could have ruined his Memorial day and made it enjoyable for others in the neighborhood.

[byronius]

4. Thought about it. Probably should have.

But cops were driving by pretty regularly. Just like with his giant McCain sign, it's a cry for help. I think he wanted some persecution.

[Tempest]

5. If the cops there are anything like the ones in my area

They were driving by waiting for someone to complain so they could investigate.

Without a complaint, the cops won't do anything unless it's blatant. With a complaint they would have approached your neighbor, seen that he was drunk and acted accordingly (which may only be talking him into going inside).