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

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TJGator1215

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One nation under GOD.

Deal with it you Commie bastard.

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Added in 1954. Not apart of the original pledge until we felt like we had to prove something (we didn't).

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You hear people say this all the time but I really don't believe it's true.

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The only thing worse is standing for the anthem and removing your hat.

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I only do it so as not to piss off the brain-washed hillbillies and coonasses around me at LSU sporting events. I don't care for drama.

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shitty troll

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Nope, just your run of the mill AnCap. No one loves to use the term "statism" more than AnCaps.

Go back across the border you frickin' commie

A blind pledge is worthless. Pledging just to do it is no good. Children wouldn't understand, on any level, what the pledge is.. but it's a good idea to get their brains on a small scale AWARE of the idea that their place is worth defending.

Pledging allegiance to any country you're native to is not necessarily a pledge to the current regime... the current populace, or anything necessarily modern. To me, it represents that it is a positive notion to support the ideas that the country was founded on. The things that have allowed YOU to get to where you're at today. The stuff that allowed your family from then until now to achieve whatever it is they have achieved.

The pledge of allegiance to America is a pledge to the IDEA of what America is SUPPOSED to be. A place for freedom. A place where you have the freedom and right to forge your OWN way in this world. A place where you have an equal say.

Sure, we have really hurt a lot of what the country was originally intended to be like. Our populace votes for their own selfish needs, and not the needs of the country. There are plenty of reasons you can get mad or frustrated at the current state of affairs... but to lose total sight that what America is, what it was intended to be, what it should be, and how AWESOME those ideas still are... and to lose enough of that sight to forget what it means to feel pride in one's country is worth a down vote, man.

America is an idea much more than it is anything else. THAT idea is worth fighting for. Definitely worth a pledge.

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Not much. However, I do see the value in pledging allegiance to the country.

This should be the pledge:

I pledge allegiance to the United States of America, one republic for which this flag stands, one nation UNDER GOD, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Pretty simple, eh?

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I can appreciate that but you left out the absolute most important part

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.