or am I looking too deeply...

When we first started being proud of being Americans everyone put up a little flag sticker in their car, or bought a T-shirt with the newspaper's mast-head on the back or something like that. But thats all over, we're pissed off again, ashamed of our leaders, angry with everyone in the press except John Stewart. What I've noticed is that it all seemed to have happened as the cheap dye in those shirts began to fade and as the ink of those car window stickers turned that awful beige color. As a nation of mostly consumers I find it funny and yet unsurprising that strong emotions and convictions turned just as fast as those poorly made car stickers. - I mean anyone who actually cared about the country or had any pride in the matter would have replaced that sticker by now with a fresh new one wouldn't you think? Sticker or not, it is still the american flag which should be treated with an amount of respect and since they don't seem to mind the yellowed perversion left on their rear window, I can only surmise at their core, they didn't really care.