Reading this thread was eye opening in many ways…
I think it is sad that we (in the US) have reached such a individualistic selfish life that we only care about ourselves, our views, and our time. If you are in the road you are an inconvenience. PERIOD.
This is what we need to fix… and it is not a political problem… its a sociological problem.
As far as what I wear on the road… here in Kansas I will wear bright jerseys with lots of lights. I am BY FAR more afraid of the driver that did not see me because they are distracted or on the their phone, than the driver who will drive his car close to me because I am not wearing stars and stripes.
Flag still existed before BLM as well. There are also Thin Red Line flags (firefighters), and Thin Green Line flags (EMS) but you never hear about those.
Maybe, but it wasn’t until BLM because a thing that the blue line became a thing and the flag adjacent symbol displayed by many on their car and houses
Like many things in politics as a way to counter protest…
Interesting… I thought it was a war related thing (probably because of the movie).
You’re just seeing more of it for people showing support. I have a morale patch of the TBL flag I purchased back in 2011, 2 full years before BLM became a thing.
My hope is that @bbarrera sees it as a friendly jab. I’m simply pointing out all of our fairly obviously political biases. I think living in CA would color my world view differently too, I bet I’d be more moderate if I lived there. I have plenty to speak out against the left even as a liberal myself.
ya almost stuck an emoji in there and glad you picked up on the irony LOL. I’ve met a lot of intolerant people, from all over the world and of all political persuasions. I walked out of college and started working in one of the greatest meritocracies (Silicon Valley), a hard working culture that was filled with the best and the brightest engineers from all over the world. Couple that with CA crazies and you have special recipe for left coast world views.
Can we all just visualize whirled peas and post some fun jerseys?!
Nailed it. It’s identity politics all the way down. They have a very strong idea of what it means to be a Real American and a lot of resentment against anyone fails to conform to that norm–especially if they’re behaving in a way that can be construed as “taking” from Real Americans. That’s the entitlement angle.
My only experience of wearing a national jersey was an Irish one I’d picked up on my summer holidays. I made the mistake of wearing it perhaps through a village in east of Scotland and had a bottle chucked at me and hitting my ankle. Luckily it plastic, so whilst it did cut the ankle, it wasn’t deep. Was it because of stupid religious sectarianism or group sectarianism (or whatever you want to call it) as I was leading a club run of cyclists
Next holiday was in Australia and I bought a jersey again but the only one I could get was a large which totally drowns me, so mostly sits in the cupboard
I can’t find it now but there was a guy in Australia that designed a jersey to mimic a high vis work shirt. He got the same result of no one harassing him. We’re not so patriotic here but our rednecks always respect a “worker”.
I’d love to see what happens if you wore office clothes…
it plastic, so whilst it did cut the ankle, it wasn’t deep. Was it because of stupid religious sectarianism or group sectarianism (or whatever you want to call it) as I was leading a club run of cyclists 
