𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑬𝒈𝒐’𝒔 𝑩𝒊𝒈𝒈𝒆𝒓 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑷𝒂𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒎
Imagine being the kind of person who, when faced with the passing of a former U.S. president—a figure who served the nation regardless of party—chooses to let political pettiness take the wheel.
𝑾𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝑵𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒖 𝑪𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒚 𝑬𝒙𝒆𝒄𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑩𝒓𝒖𝒄𝒆 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏, 𝒂 𝑹𝒆𝒑𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒏, 𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒔 𝑵𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒖 𝑪𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒚 𝒐𝒏 𝑵𝒆𝒘 𝒀𝒐𝒓𝒌'𝒔 𝑳𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝑰𝒔𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒍𝒂𝒈𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒇-𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒇𝒇 𝒊𝒏 𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝑫𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒄𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝑱𝒊𝒎𝒎𝒚 𝑪𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒓.
Picture a local official standing stubbornly beneath a flag fluttering proudly at full staff, arms crossed like they just won some kind of partisan tug-of-war no one else was playing.
The former president, Jimmy Carter, a man who built homes for the poor well into his 90s, probably wouldn't take it personally. But everyone else watching this display of defiance might cringe at the sheer smallness of it all.
Lowering a flag isn't a grand endorsement of a political ideology; it's a simple act of respect that should rise above the noise of party lines.
It's as if the official forgot that honoring service to the country is about decency, not division.
American Belle