Hmmmmm.
A New Jersey (aka "PRNJ" = People's Republic of New Jersey) judge agrees that an oath that was written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy, who was a Socialist minister should not revert to its pre-1954 form.
I have no objection to people pledging whatever they want that isn't illegal, immoral or personally harmful to me but was America all that bad from 1892 to 1954 compared to America today?
The problem that I have with the Pledge is the following. The Pledge contains wording like “one nation,” and “indivisible.” So while patriots are fighting unconstitutionally big federal government they are simultaneously encouraging our young adult children to recite the Pledge which waters down the idea of state sovereignty by arguably promoting big federal government.
Thomas Jefferson had put it this way.
"The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the States are independent as to everything within themselves, and united as to everything respecting foreign nations." --Thomas Jefferson to Gideon Granger, 1800.
"With respect to our State and federal governments, I do not think their relations correctly understood by foreigners. They generally suppose the former subordinate to the latter. But this is not the case. They are co-ordinate departments of one simple and integral whole." --Thomas Jefferson to John Cartwright, 1824.