Overall, I'm fairly ambivalent about whether someone chooses to stand or kneel for the National Anthem.

Do I feel NFL players choosing to kneel is an effective protest? Probably not. Do I feel it's been over-hyped in the news and social media? Absolutely. Do I feel that the President should have stayed out of the whole discussion? Yes (but I didn't really expect that to happen).

My biggest issue with the latest line of protest is that it focuses on symptoms,and not on the real problems. It's like handing you a band-aid to treat your cancer. When you dig beneath the surface you can always find the governments hand creating problems, and then attempting to set themselves up as the solution. As this article rightly points out, the government is so intrusive in so many different areas, and yet the citizens continue to turn to them to fix our problems.

It's maddening!