[Windflier]

Trying to please them will lose far more votes from the right than any candidate will ever pick up from the left.

I don't believe it's anything more than a fine point that some of us are making.

No one's saying that we should fearfully coddle the left. Far from it. I think I've plainly indicated that the wording in the pledge (regarding black families under slavery) is accurate, but that it's needlessly provocative.

[NYCslicker]

“No one’s saying that we should fearfully coddle the left. Far from it. I think I’ve plainly indicated that the wording in the pledge (regarding black families under slavery) is accurate, but that it’s needlessly provocative.”

And, your reasoning goes, we should therefore fearfully coddle the Left by not signing it.

Let’s not “provoke” the Left! They are just in the process of tearing down the greatest country in the world and the most successful free government in the history of mankind.

But by all means, let’s not “provoke” them!

/sarcasm