I understand what you are saying but nowadays its such an easy thing to say, just smooth things along and keep things moving smoothly. If I believed for a second that such a ritual kow tow is in anyway binding I would be as angry as you. But I don’t believe that. I believe that it is 100% meaningless and just an easy way to smooth the feathers of the 47% of the lunatics in America.
Here’s one man’s opinion on why they force people to regurgitate BS. Makes sense to me.
“In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better.
When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies,
or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves,
they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”
Theodore Dalrymple