The American flag represents the ethos of Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Values that permitted the existence of capitalism and of human flourishing. The politicians of today represent the opposite to those founding values. They preach anti-life, anti-liberty, and the pursuit of terror. They wrap their corrupt creed in the American flag to fool those who don't care to think but unconsciously know and feel that the flag represents something good. The American flag stands for the highest values of any other nation. It is wrong to place it in your axis of evil.