Dwain Northey (Gen X)

We appear to have a group of people that have confused two very different words, they claim patriotism (the feeling of love, devotion, and a sense of attachment to a country or state.), with fealty (the obligation or the engagement to be faithful to a lord.)

Since this past Thursdays guilty verdict on 34 count of falsifying business records more people are taking down their American flag and hanging a Trump flag and they claim this is an act of Patriotism. I argue that they have a misunderstanding of the word and that they are pleading fealty to their God King and not to the nation they propose to honor,

Our founding fathers started a revolution to get away from a king and to not pledge fealty to a monarch. Today’s Republican party has thrust us back 275 years back to wanting to pledge field to a king someone who can control everything without any possible Accountability to anyone. this is not the country that I willingly volunteered to serve in the 80s or that my father served for 30 years. I hope that people wake up and realize that we are a democracy and want to retain that in the future.