> On April 25, 1976, the Chicago Cubs were playing the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium.  Halfway through the game, an unemployed protester and his 11-year-old son jumped onto the field and attempted to light an American flag on fire.  Cubs centerfielder Rick Monday saw what they were doing, ran over, and grabbed the flag away from them before they were able to burn it.  The crowd gave Monday a standing ovation and spontaneously sang “God Bless America.”  > Nowadays, our nation’s sports players are more likely to kneel down next to the protesters to help block the wind, but that’s another story.  The lesson of this story is its window into the mindset of the Left.  Had that would-be flag burner had anything interesting to say, people would have listened to him.  But he didn’t have anything interesting to say.  So he tried to force people to listen at one of the few venues available to citizens for them to expressly escape, for a few hours, the politicization of every aspect of life.  > Contemporary leftists carry this mindset to the extreme.  We can’t watch sports, eat dinner, drink coffee, pray in church, enjoy a concert, shop for clothes or food, attend a speech, get emergency medical care, drive to work, or even just work in peace without leftists shoving their agenda in our faces through everything from mandatory training to literally blocking our paths.  And this is to say nothing of “direct action” (i.e., physical violence) against innocent civilians, police, and property when leftists don’t get what they want through their usual monkeyshines.