Everyone against Trump is also against the flag and the anthem; everyone for the flag and the anthem is also for him. Trump reverse psychology trick worked perfectly.

"We're in a vortex of stupid and it´s reduced to a black hole of idiocy and we are never going to escape."
Ben Shapiro

In his 1961 President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned of the possibility of a “military-industrial complex.”

This complex would have a deep interest in conflict — an interest that could “endanger our liberties or democratic processes.”

Today, it’s not the military-industrial complex we have to fear threatening world peace. It’s the culture-war political-entertainment complex. The culture-war political-entertainment complex gives the power of those who gain from it in the ratings; both the politicians who engage in cultural battles and the media who pump those battles for increased revenue are to blame for the increases divide of all people not just Americans.

In this weeks episode of "The Culture War", the NFL as well as the mass media fell for one of the oldest tricks in the book. It all started when NFL players started 3 years ago to protest the unjustified shooting of a black teenager Michael Borwn by a white police officer in St. Louis. Later that year San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick donned socks festooned with cartoon pigs in police outfits and began kneeling for the National Anthem, proclaiming himself a martyr for civil rights. This week all hell broke loose when Trump not only condemned national-anthem protest, he suggested that the NFL should adopt rules against protests by players during the anthem and called on owners to fire any “son of a bitch” who “disrespects our flag.”

Kaepernick’s National Anthem protest in 2016 was wildly unpopular by polls, Trump used this for his political gains!

And Trump figured, correctly, that the Left would rush to the defense of those protesting the anthem. The Left, convinced its own base would cheer such a defense, immediately engaged in the stupidest of all possible tactics: encouraging everyone to kneel for the anthem. This, of course, led to precisely the war Trump wanted: Everyone against him is also against the flag and the anthem; everyone for the flag and the anthem is also for him.

Conclusion

So, who benefits from this culture war? Definitely not the country. The political establishment decided that their own political and financial gain was more important than the separation between sports and politics, there was a relative consensus on these issues: Protesting the anthem and the flag is stupid, but players should be allowed to do it unless team owners feel like firing them.

Now anyone who says protesting the anthem is dumb is now labeled a knee-jerk jingoist with a Trumpist streak; anyone who says firing anthem protesters is dumb is now labeled an anti-American sympathizer. Viewers don’t benefit, either — now they can’t escape politics. And nor does the NFL; its inconsistent approach to politics has led to this proliferation of political agenda in every aspect of our life.

My Opinions

It feels like everything became political its hard to enjoy anything anymore, from TV to sports, to sitting with your friends in bars. I don't see the world going off this path anytime soon. It rather looks like it is accelerating.
Looking back in history this behavior has always led to violence and ultimately to war. I just had a debate with my roommate and her boyfriend and I can already see how the everything is falling to place, as it becomes impossible to have an honest debate.

Sources

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/451724/trump-nfl-rant-doesnt-help-country-or-sport-football

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/michael-brown-shooting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93industrial_complex

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