Flag Desecration: The Issue is Not the Issue

One of the more enduring slogans from the 1960s counter-culture movement was that 'The Issue Is Not the Issue.' What this means is that what was at stake was not any particular policy; instead, the real issue was the entire social structure of assumptions and authority. Whatever the immediate issue may have been, it merely a symptom of a larger issue, and that larger issue was the real goal of protest. Read Article: Flag Desecration: The Issue is Not the Issue