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[–]catfishrising 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The pledge of allegiance was a marketing ploy to sell flags to schools. I'm not making it up.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'd believe it, the American right needs to step back on this issue a bit and ask themselves, do you think having children blindly recite the pledge of allegiance before they even know what words like allegiance mean is a good idea? I'm not going to freak out about it but it's clearly a meaningless show of submission to authority and little more. It's a prayer to the flag frankly, and it's funny when people don't realize that.