Why aren't people showing the flag for the 4th?

[The Blue Flower]

I live just west of Richmond, VA. Walking the dog around the neighborhood, I was surprised to find only one house with the flag displayed this weekend. Could it be because people now associate it with anti-American craziness?

[jimfields33]

1. Is this unusual? Does the neighborhood usually display flags?

I personally don’t put up a flag but the HOA puts a flag on each home at the driveway. If not for the HOA, most wouldn’t put them up.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. I haven't flown the flag since we invaded Iraq.

[NoRethugFriends]

3. Because the country sucks (nt)

[Diamond_Dog]

4. My next door neighbors

Have a flag on their house all the time. Wind, rain, snow, dark of night. They never take it down. I’m not sure if this is proper.

We do put one up for appropriate holidays but we take it down at the end of the day. It was the flag my late Father in law flew at his house. He was a WW2 veteran.

[marble falls]

6. No. It's not proper. It comes down at night, unless lit. It comes down in the rain. It comes ...

... down if it's damaged.

[tanyev]

5. I don't put up a flag for the same reason I don't put up a Christmas tree,

cook a Thanksgiving dinner, or go out to eat with my husband on Valentine's Day. My life is not controlled by things that are 'supposed' to be done on holidays.

[DavidDvorkin]

9. Yes!

Great post.

[Elessar Zappa]

7. We put up ours.

I saw a lot around my blue town.

[femmocrat]

8. We put ours back up when Biden was elected.

Took it down when you-know-who was “elected.” Hope it annoys the trumpster who was flying a t-rump flag. (He has since taken his down.)

[samnsara]

10. we got a flag when we cleaned out and sold my uncles house.. i forgot to put it up

..hubby said he didnt want to be mistaken for a trumper. maybe others feel that way too. Even the local paper didnt have their page with a flag that we could put in the window..instead they had a big page with scripture...who paid for that??

[LizBeth]

11. I had someone on twitter ask if putting up flag would have people think Republican.

It is sad it seems they have taken ownership over our flag.

[gulliver]

12. You mean those things Dubya autographed and Trump hugged on stage?

Republicans have fouled the flag. Every Republican needs to be voted out of every office. Then fly the flag everywhere. Right now, it is being displayed by Republican moral and patriotic failures, not just good Americans.

[Blue Dawn]

13. Our flag flies all the time....

....with a spotlight on it at night. We treat our flag according to proper protocol.

I love seeing it as it waves in the breeze. We actually have quite a few flags flying in our neighborhood. I have no idea if those people are Republicans or Democrats.

[Stinky The Clown]

14. Our flag flies 24/7/365

Lighted according to proper flag etiquette.

We are actually looking into a flagpole for the front yard instead of the current holder on a porch column.

The flag belongs to all of us, nit just right wingers.

Coincidentally, right below our flag are two yard signs, like these:

[UTUSN]

15. Because the freedom of human nature includes showing and not-showing?

[DavidDvorkin]

16. I don't own a flagpole or a flag

And intend never to own either.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

17. Go ask them.

[Iggo]

18. Ah...flag worship.

Yep, don’t miss it.

[Solly Mack]

19. Unless they fly it all the time, or on all federal holidays

it wouldn't be unusual to not fly it on any particular day would it?