And lets not forget the nifty little salute they used to make the kids throw before the guy with the funny mustache gave it a bad rep.
Exactly. FDR’s Administration suddenly changed the Pledge of Allegiance salute from the outstretched arm typical of the Fascists to the hand over heart salute.The whole purpose of the Pledge of Alleigance is to instill a public embracement of unthinking obediance and loyalty to a regime and its falg more so than to the human principles and government of the People and by the People under a republican form of government guaranteeing the civil rights of individuals and families.
Hitler’s NAZI Germany, Mussolini’s Fascist Italy, the Communist regimes, and other totalitarian governemnts have all demanded such involuntary pledges of allegiance to their regimes as a means of using peer pressure and intimidation.