When I was a kid I didn't have to worry if the person with the flag was completely batshit crazy or not. The only annoying thing was needing to do the pledge of allegiance because public education forces people to do that, even though I'd much rather be doing anything else.

Nowadays though gotta avoid the flag like the plague, especially if its on a pickup truck

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago

In most states it is illegal to force kids to do the pledge. I caught a lot of shit for not doing it but it seemed really creepy and wrong to me from about age 13.