I didn’t say it was reasonable to ask for a repayment. I’m saying that it is unreasonable to think you can simply untangle a state from the union of the states. States are not independent entities which have some trivial “membership” in a club that they could quit anytime they want. They are an integral part of the whole that is the “United States”, one nation under God, Indivisible.
Oh OK, I see what point you were trying to make. Thanks for the clarification.
When was the Pledge of Allegiance written, and by whom? What was the individual’s background and political philosophy?
Now, juxtapose that convenient little exercise in authoritarianism with the Declaration of Independence... and the historical records written down by those who in fact FORMED this nation. What did they believe?
Here you will find the combat that is explicit in its divergence from the original intent of the authors of this nation, and those who practice the propaganda of tyrants, so to enforce whatever perversion of our Constitution may be expedient that they may lord over and dictate to all free men against their wills.