For well over a month now, athletes from the NFL to the WNBA to our colleges and high schools have taken a knee during The Star-Spangled Banner and our nation has not crumbled.
Actually, you could make the case that it has never looked better.
With the exception of a vocal minority on social media and radio talk shows, the rest of us have noted the development, acknowledged the lovely existence of the First Amendment and basically moved along. Some have joined in. Others have shaken their heads. We might like the protests or despise them, but a vast majority of us have defended them, or at least accepted them.