The entire concept of pledging allegiance is statist/collectivist/communist/socialist.
Amazing...a soul of fire and a heart of ice. Either very young or else very bitter. In either case, only half a man.
--Boot Hill
Well, sure we are - how do you think a large number of folks on Bush Republic vote? One evil is a collectivist more of the fascist persuasion, while another evil is an outspoken, class-warfare practicing socialist. But we can't let the socialist get in, so we vote fascist. Parsing, compartmentalizing and consensus-based dialectic thinking is what these people do best.