The Vietnam Protestor And The Kneeling Athlete Are The Same

"There is no difference between the Vietnam protester and the kneeling athlete. Most Vietnam protesters I knew—some of them close friends—did not question the strength or purpose of the overarching fabric of the Constitution—a blood-stained cloth, hand-stitched imperfectly, by the Founders.

When I see an athlete taking a knee during the National Anthem, I don’t see a disrespectful citizen; I see someone who is exercising our democracy’s prime directive..."

I agree that there is no difference between the Viet Nam protester and the kneeling athlete, but I disagree that this is an admirable thing. They are both equally repugnant in my view.

I find it disingenuous that Mr. Moore appears to be blaming the entire litany of social woes in this country solely on the election of a new President. I guess we are supposed to believe that "Racism, bigotry, inequality, injustice, lives ignored, lives taken senselessly, poverty, homelessness, religious persecution, xenophobia, unequal education, unaffordable medical care, no medical care, disdain for those who are physically or mentally disabled, soaring drug abuse, senior abuse, child abuse, human trafficking, climate change, and global responsibilities that would fill another page" all showed up in November, 2016. He forgot to include increased global terrorism, loss of respect by other nations, weakening global influence, soaring national debt, almost total disregard for Constitutional law, abuse of Executive power and a litany of other failures and faults that "would fill another page". Maybe those weren't included because they primarily showed up in the past 8 years. The author should have stuck to his "habit to demure on offering opinions about things of which I have little experience or no personal investment". By not doing so this time, he showed himself to be another opinionated blindered crybaby who doesn't understand the phrase "get over it - you lost." He's part of a group that would only be happy if the previous inhabitant of the Oval Office had been elected President for Life. Rhetorical question - If the aforementioned issues are so easy to address that they should have been eradicated in the past 9 months, why couldn't the previous administration eliminate them in 8 years?