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“I would have happily voted for Herman Cain,” he said, referring to the conservative black businessman who ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination.Organizations benefiting from the event include Trans Lifeline, Brave Space Alliance, TransLatina Coalition, and The Ally Coalition. And he emphasized that his animus has nothing to do with race. He does not believe that the president is secretly a Muslim. Harris, a divorced father of four daughters, a former soccer coach and referee, said he wanted to make it plain that he is “not some kind of wacko.” He believes that Mr. “It’s not meant to deface the flag in any way.” “I don’t have a problem with it,” he said. Some Republicans politicians, like State Senator Dave Syverson of Illinois, defended the upside-down flags as displays that might “spark a discussion” about the “sense of frustration” among many voters. “The fringe - and both parties have a fringe - have a hard time understanding that politics is not religion.
“Things like upside-down flags and talk of secession are not helpful,” said Paul Green, a political science professor at Roosevelt University in Illinois. The sense of despair and anger since the election has been expressed in scattered cases around the country of people turning their American flags upside down.įor a Republican Party eager to avoid an extremist image, some political experts say, the upside-down flags are not welcome. These are deflated times for many ultraconservatives and Tea Party crusaders who felt certain that America had come to its senses and was going to make a sharp right turn at the polls in November. “I can no longer trust the American people to do the right thing since they re-elected Obama.” Harris, 55, an Air Force veteran who earns more than $40 an hour as a nonunion construction worker. “I seriously feel this country is in dire distress,” said Mr. This is scarcely a liberal bastion, but the county, which lies some 70 miles northwest of Chicago, cast a majority of votes for the fellow Illinoisan in the White House.
He figured the display would incite some passers-by on his country road here in the cornfields of DeKalb County. Outside his old farmhouse, he had erected an upside-down American flag, a military signal of dire distress, and scrawled two big signs deploring President Obama’s re-election: “No Hope” and “Enslaved by the 47 Percent.” Jim Harris expected vandalism, angry calls, maybe even a violent attack.