There are lots of people who disagree with the coercion and believe it should have been a personal choice, but they reluctantly took it to keep their jobs. If the danger had not been so heavily censored, they might have found the courage to resist, but they thought (hoped) it would be no big deal.
Choir director complained this week the tempo of a song was lagging. He told the soloist she was responsible for tempo and the rest of us would follow her. He told her, "Don't turn this into a dragfest." I replied, "Oh, we ain't having no dragfest." He put his head down on the piano like Schroeder.
Rush Limbaugh wrote a series of patriotic children's books. See also The Tuttle Twins. Also https://www.glennbeck.com/2017/07/01/12-star-spangled-spectacular-books-for-kids/
"Are you a good king? Or a bad king?"-- " I'm not a king at all! I'm Dorothy Gale, from Kansas."