The singing of the National Anthem is a political act? How? Isn't the singing of the National Anthem similar to the singing of Happy Birthday, to honor the person who's birthday it is. The singing of the Anthem is to honor the country. To look at the singing of the National Anthem as a political act, is proof that everything with the left is base on politics. With the left, sports are political, weather is political, cars are political, music is political, baking chocolate chip cookies is political, if one uses a gas oven, it's about fossil fuel, if they use an electric oven is coal. Even what we eat with the left is political, just eating those cookies is political.