Players
of the national football league have been exploiting the national
anthem during football games for political purposes recently. They
take a knee to protest either the way black Americans are treated by
American police forces in the states or President Donald Trump. In
either case the nation nis not favored to have the gracious loyalty
of such wonderful Americans as football stars. If war breaks out the
NFL will perhaps not be people one can count on to go to basic
training to be available for service after the war is ended. Well,
they have a lot of money to count anyway.
The
national football league acquiring an unsavory reputation as yippees
loyal to the nation only if their political party wins or if it suits
them are not helpful to the cause of nationalism. Nationalism is the
right realm for the existence of democracy. Elites have been trying
to give it a bad reputation ever since aristocracies lost power.
Quite grudgingly I might add.
Elites
and aristocracies are the traditional enemy against which democracy
formed. Communism and a classless society is equally bad for it
represses individualism and promotes elite dictatorial rulers and
committees, besides usually being atheist. Aristocracies or their
proxies-national socialist corporatists such as Hitler evolved or
plutocrats dominating power through the extreme concentration of
wealth, have always warred against democracy. Especially the American
democracy. Keeping it free from global and international elites of
any sort- imperial, communist , aristocratic or plutocratic is a
never ending challenge.
Nations
can support any sort of government. A geographic region is not the
problem. The problem is the sort of government that is sovereign in
it. In the era of aristocratic, royal nationalism kings warred
against other kings. Nations did fight nations yet the nation was no
more than an extension of the will to power of a monarch.
Europe
has little history of large scale democracy. Aristocracy or
communism-totalitarianism of some form or other is behind about every
nation during its time. Athens had a limited democracy, and so did
Holland with the Dewitt brothers before being torn apart, even so
most of European history is one of elites ruling masses of inferiors,
and that isn’t what then United States was supposed to be about.
So
the NFL stars that support tribalism or globalism, Internationale
communist songs or those were the days tunes and need to protest
during the U.S. national anthem are doing a double disservice to the
nation. Or make that triple.
1)
They are bad role models training youth to hate the national anthem,
sports or football players
2)
They represent the word nation as disloyal, spoilt rich guys with
head injuries
3)
They seem too spaced to have particular issues to fix that might have
some political remedy directly such as increasing taxes on the rich
to pay for better police forces in the U.S.A., and must instead
support anomie and chaos to help destroy U.S. democracy in order to
benefit the rich
