Posted on 03/21/2023 10:48:58 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
The Pledge of Allegiance was written by a self-avowed socialist, a man named Edward Bellamy. American students were long expected to extend their right arms outward while reciting the Pledge. You know, like the Nazi salute. Officials decided, for appearance’s sake, to change it to the right hand over the heart.
It is also interesting to note that the Pledge came into existence during the time that American socialists were moving the country in the direction of a welfare state. In 1913, for example, the Sixteenth Amendment (progressive income taxation) to the Constitution
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It's like playing the National Anthem before sporting events. Passed by congress during the Great Depression it was meant to take the publics minds off of the dire conditions throughout the country.
Those flyovers at NFL games-see a pattern?
i protested saying the pledge everyday...
why is not once enough i asked? i have pledged already.
This was yesterday’s kink:
more also-bring it on!
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-03-20/pledge-of-allegiance-first-amendment-marissa-barnwell-alfred-goodwin
Libtards are forcing allegiance to the fag flag
Good point!
“[F]reedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.
If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.“
true.
“Those flyovers at NFL games-see a pattern?”
Nope.
Far better would be the oath that our military take to defend the Constitution.
Bingo!
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