re: Is there anything more absurd than the pledging allegiance to a flag?

See this is why I hate posts like this. As if this system is the best humans can do.The constitution doesn't prevent anything at all. The government easily sidesteps it with laws trampling the "rights" you're suppose to have. Yet instead of scrapping the system or improving it to increase freedom Americans point to every other country and say well this is better or if you don't like it leave! Which is retarded given that instead of creating a society that requires personal personal responsibility and social, economic and political freedom we have a broken system that is built on illusions and cliches.