Today we reclaim our democracy -- and it's time to reclaim the symbol of our democracy. For too long, the Republican Party and the Far Right have attempted to co-opt the Flag. They have attempted to take the symbol of freedom, tolerance, individual rights, and our Constitution, and use it instead to signal support for exclusion, xenophobia, assaults on our rights, and even torture and internal spying.
It's time for that to end.
I'm going out to my local hardware store to buy an American flag today and will be putting it up on my house -- it is Election Day, after all. No big bumper stickers, nothing that attaches to my car windows -- just a flag, at home.
Maybe others can do the same.