Is it just me?

Am I the only one who finds the huge American flag sticker on the back of a non-Big 3 automaker automobile to be a tad ironic?*

Don’t get me wrong, I understand that a lot of non-U.S. automakers, Toyota in particular, have created jobs in the U.S. There are assembly plants that finish the cars and parts manufacturing plants that craft the pieces that go into the cars. American workers are employed and happy because of foreign car manufacturers.

But the profits still leave the U.S.

OK, so the economy is a big system and, simplistically, everything that contributes to the health of the economy (ie: that which keeps people employed, able to buy food, pay for healthcare, take care of themselves and their families (and, coincidentially, go out and buy a lot of useless crap)) is probably a good thing, but doesn’t jingoism, which is exactly what slapping an American flag on your car screams to me, dictate a singleminded support of your country?

All this from the six block commute to work.

* For reference, the Compact Oxford English Dictionary defines irony as:
irony
• noun (pl. ironies) 1 the expression of meaning through the use of language which normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous effect. 2 a state of affairs that appears perversely contrary to what one expects.
— ORIGIN Greek eironeia ‘simulated ignorance’.