Baseball

Baseball is the great American past time, the national sport, the spirit of the country. Whenever I've gone to a baseball game, I never really understand what's going on during the game. Mostly, I drink expensive beer and eat hot dogs and french fries. You talk with your friends and look down on the field whenever the crowd cheers or roars. They have enormous TV screens to show you what happened. Your American friends try to explain it to you but it makes no sense to you. A third of the game is spent waiting in line for food or to go to the bathroom. There's lots of stuff to buy and not much is expected of you. Half the crowd never seems to pay much attention. If the weather is nice, it can be a nice day or evening out.

Confederate Flag

Every time I think I understand America and American history, I find realizing that I just don't understand anything. Abraham Lincoln was a Republican and President of the country at the time of Southern States, like the one I live in, seceded. The Southern States, also known as the Confederate States of America, believed in slavery and the Republicans believed in freedom and no slavery. A poll I read on line today said that 67% of current Republicans today support the Confederate Flag, which many Americans, myself included, find offensive. I find the Confederate Flag as offensive as the Nazi  Flag. As a German, I would never, ever fly the Nazi Flag. As a Virginian, I would never fly the Confederate Flag. As an American, I would never fly the Confederate Flag.

Every election, actually, pretty much every night on the news, Republican politicians complain that Democrats don't love their country enough and aren't true Americans. However, the Republicans are the ones who support the Confederate Flag, even though the Confederates were the enemies of the Republicans years ago. If you are a Republican now are you really a Confederate supporter? Isn't that like a Jewish person becoming a Nazi? Maybe one of my readers will explain this whole thing to me because I just don't understand.

Are Republicans against slavery but for the Confederates, for America but also for the people who killed the most Americans?