My thoughts about flag-waving.
This flag does not fly for greed and empire building. This flag does not fly in support of Americans against the world. This flag does not fly for rights for one ethnic group over another. This flag does not fly to subject others to my religious preference. This flag does not fly to deny equal human rights to anyone. I fly this flag to support the vision of our founding fathers, that all humans are created with equal rights and that government is a social contract among a diverse set of people. This flag flies for a capitalist economy with appropriate regulation that encourages genuine competition. This flag flies in respect for peoples of other nations, yet it seeks to expand human rights wherever it can. But even flag-waving has its limits. I think it was Mark Twain who said, "Better to wrap up in the Constitution and burn a flag than to wrap up in a flag and burn the Constitution."