It's the damndest thing...
When I was growing up, they made me say a pledge every day that said "liberty and justice for all."
They taught me "the golden rule."
They sent me to church to learn about a guy who said we should help the poor and the sick, we should show love to each other.
They told me that "but everyone else is doing it" wasn't an excuse for my own bad behavior.
And now when I advocate for the things that they taught me, they call me a socialist or a communist.
@usdosp
Why did any of us agree to chant that stupid pledge every morning like a bad scene from an Orwell novel?
The Pledge of Allegiance is a loyalty oath, and a loyalty oath has no place in a free country. If the state wants our loyalty, it should earn it by doing things that benefit the masses.
Most of the rest of the world thinks the Pledge is [bad word] weird. We're the only ones that can't see that because we're the targets of this indoctrination.
@tofugolem @usdosp always found the US pledge of allegiance odd. I live in a country with a monarch who is still our head of state, and we don't even do something like that.
That and the obsession with the US flag.
Both bizarrely American.
At the risk of being mercilessly mocked, allow me to explain my own personal perspective.
To me the flag represents the ideals that we as a nation should be striving for. Now don't get me wrong - we're not perfect, never have been, never will be. But one good thing from our establishment was that we were given a framework for continual improvement. And I think that is what the founding fathers meant when they said "...in order to form a more perfect union."
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