Omaha, Confront Your Neighbors

Where is Old Glory?

Yes, the blue dot signs are an argument on the issue of winner-take-all in the electoral college of Presidential races. However, the symbolism has a dark side. To be blunt, I hate the winner-take-all system. It distorts the will of the people a bit too much. However, until California and New York abandon winner-take-all, I fail to understand why Nebraska should be a stick-in-the-mud for a contrarian position with no power. New York and California must lead in abandoning the winner-take-all system but they won't because such states prop up progressive Democrats.

Yes, Trump supporters want Nebraska to change the law, but doing so is a lot like trying to push 49 cats into a swimming pool. Many are going to scratch your eyes out.

However, in Congressional District Two, many people are posting yard signs with a blue dot, in opposition to the winner-take-all proposal. In part, I am empathetic to their position, but the people posting these yard signs are partisan to the core if not worse. If a person has a blue dot sign, I expect them to have an American flag and Vargas and Harris signs. These people honestly, however incorrectly,  think Democrats have something to offer. They are likely short in experience in thinking so, but they are tolerable.

The people I have problems with are those who have a blue dot sign in their yard and a foreign or other non-USA flag posted, absent of Old Glory. Others have blue dot signs but no signs of any candidate or flag at all. Why are these people so attached to partisan politics to the point of abandoning recognition of the values of their own country? Why does the blue dot appear to be as partisan as a swastika or the hammer-and-sicle?

I would like to think this is just a few ill-thinking neighbors but it is quite common to see the embrace of the blue dot as a symbol, but no adoption of the USA flag as a symbol of importance. Confontation is now necessary. Many of my conservative readers refrain from confronting such people, as many are introverted and shy, but this type of confrontation is necessary, to the same extent it is uncomfortable.

Confrontation is necessary because such left-wing people are very isolated from the broader world.  Their view of the world is very narrow and largely shaped by biased national broadcast media. Conservatives must bring their neighbors into a more cosmopolitan view of the world where many different thoughts must be debated and exchanged. These blue dot signs are a self-imposed target by ignorant people who must be confronted, and conservatives should exploit the situation by confronting them and documenting such actions.

Challenging people on their patriotism can be difficult, but it is necessary. The American ideals of peaceful assembly, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, are all about releasing the mind to think, to innovate, to create a better world for all. Perhaps you don’t have immediate neighbors with blue dot signs, but you have seen these signs in Omaha. I would encourage you to write letters to the editor and call your favorite radio hosts and merely pose the question: if blue dots are an important symbol, why the absence of the USA flag?