Another day, another headline about some pampered, jet-setting rock stars getting into a tiff over a foreign flag. This time, it’s a British band, Massive Attack, who apparently flashed a Palestinian flag at a concert in Singapore and promptly got themselves banned. They’re calling it a "surreal experience" and are "proud to have made this impromptu expression." Excuse me while I stifle a yawn.

“Surreal experience?” Try telling that to the steelworker in Ohio who just got his pink slip because the globalists in Washington decided cheap Chinese steel was more important than American jobs. Or the textile worker in North Carolina whose factory was shuttered, its machines crated up and shipped overseas, all for the sake of a few extra pennies on the corporate bottom line. Those are "surreal experiences" – the kind that gut communities and leave families adrift.

These millionaire musicians, flying around the world on private jets, wagging their fingers at nations for not adhering to their particular brand of progressive pieties, live in a bubble so far removed from the concerns of working people it might as well be on Mars. They flash a Palestinian flag in a country that has rules against displaying *any* foreign flags, then preen about their "bravery" when they face consequences. What bravery is there in such an act, when their biggest worry is a slight dip in their concert revenues or a stern talking-to from some local bureaucrat? Real bravery is facing down the economic wrecking ball of globalism, day after day, year after year, and still trying to provide for your family.

And let’s be frank: where’s this same impassioned flag-waving for the American flag, for American workers, for American sovereignty? You see these same types quick to decry "nationalism" at home, quick to tear down symbols of our own heritage, but they're perfectly fine with "nationalism" when it suits their favored causes abroad. They get lauded for displaying a foreign flag, while many ordinary Americans are made to feel ashamed for wanting to put America First. It's a double standard as plain as the nose on your face.

The elites, whether they’re in the halls of government, the corporate boardrooms, or the gilded concert arenas, are united in their contempt for ordinary working people and their patriotism. They preach open borders, free trade (for everyone but us, it seems), and global unity, all while our own nation's industrial heartland rusts and crumbles. They’ll lecture us on the plight of distant peoples, yet ignore the plight of our own citizens right here at home.

Singapore, a sovereign nation, has laws. They apparently didn't want any foreign flags displayed. Whether you agree with that law or not, it’s their law. These rock stars came in, flouted it, and then cry foul when they’re held accountable. It’s the kind of entitled behavior that has become par for the course among the globalist set. They believe they are above the rules, above the nations, above the common man.

While Massive Attack is busy congratulating themselves for their "impromptu expression" and their "surreal experience," American families are having a very real experience: a struggle to keep their heads above water in an economy rigged against them. An economy where manufacturing jobs are shipped overseas, replaced by low-wage service sector gigs, and our national pride is treated as a punchline by the very people who claim to represent us.

It's time we stopped paying attention to the manufactured outrage of millionaire celebrities and started focusing on the very real struggles of the men and women who build this country, who wear their patriotism not as a fashion statement or a political prop, but as a deep-seated belief in their nation and its future. Maybe then, the American flag, and the American worker, will finally get the respect they deserve.