NASCAR crowd indoctrinization reinforced yesterday at event in Texas...

[ChisolmTrailDem]

I was there and saw this yesterday (Wendy Davis was nowhere in sight)...

Was I wrong to feel weird about this?

Thoughts?

[spanone]

1. seems like a political moment to me.

[markpkessinger]

2. No, you weren'lt wrong . . .

. . . it's a really creepy kind of nationalism!

[ChisolmTrailDem]

4. More and more I feel that whenever I attend a race, concert, or other event...

...there is a brainwashing that we have to restate and reinforce our loyalty to an entity that is controlled by The Company and at the very least is not what it advertises itself to be. You have to listen to the national anthem and cheer for the troops who "keep us safe and free". I know it's because I have stepped outside the box the PTB put us in from our very first day at school. It's also weird to watch all those people buy into it so happily. I'm trying to think of some fictional analogy but I'm not as well-read as many on DU so perhaps someone can put an apt analogy to what it is I'm feeling.

[GGJohn]

3. Looks like a bunch of Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts saluting the flag,

same thing I did with I was a member of that organization.
The only creepy thing I see is Abbott.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

5. I think it's just the way it feels like we have to have our unconditional loyalty to nation

to be reinforced. They didn't used to say the pledge at the race, at least not that I remember. Why are sporting events to the last one doing this and celebrating troops who fight in wars contrived by corporations and individual powerful people? Why do the people at these events conform to pledge there allegiance to a corrupt system?

[GGJohn]

6. No idea, it's a regional thing I guess.

I try not to analyze these things too much, it hurts my brain.

[blkmusclmachine]

7. The Bible says not to put any images before god, and yet we pledge the state and the flag ...

[One_Life_To_Give]

8. Maybe special circumstance, don't usually see this.

Usually it's just the US and sometimes Canadian national anthems played. Maybe it was added just to give a role to the scouts there?

[spanone]

10. or to give a bump to abbott? never seen an attorney general participate at a nascar race before...

[Rex]

9. Not wrong at all, I hope Abbotts campaign paid NASCAR for that PR stunt.

I'm surprised Abbott can find his heart.