Dumz vote NOT to recite Pledge prior to meetings

[sighLent]

In case you wondered whose side they are on

 

[RoryN]

Fantastic news.

The religious Right had it edited, and now that action is being corrected.

 

[YDB95]

If you feel the need to pledge allegiance to your country every single day - or every single meeting you go to during the day - it's only fair to question if your feelings are genuine. Or ESPECIALLY if you try to force everyone else at the meeting to do the same.

 

[RelentlessOnanism]

As someone who isn't American, I find your country's obsessive jingoism a bit weird. Why do you need to pledge allegiance to the flag every day? Why do you need to sing the national anthem before every sporting event? Isn’t it all a bit OTT? Most people love their country, to one extent or another, but they don't feel the need to make such a big fuss about it all the time.

 

[BluesDriver66]

We know what the Republicans want.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Students_pledging_allegiance_to_the_American_flag_with_the_Bellamy_salute.jpg

 

[YDB95]

As someone who isn't American, I find your country's obsessive jingoism a bit weird. Why do you need to pledge allegiance to the flag every day? Why do you need to sing the national anthem before every sporting event? Isn’t it all a bit OTT? Most people love their country, to one extent or another, but they don't feel the need to make such a big fuss about it all the time.

Ambrose Bierce said it best: "In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first."

 

[BluesDriver66]

As someone who isn't American, I find your country's obsessive jingoism a bit weird. Why do you need to pledge allegiance to the flag every day? Why do you need to sing the national anthem before every sporting event? Isn’t it all a bit OTT? Most people love their country, to one extent or another, but they don't feel the need to make such a big fuss about it all the time.

They fetishize patriotism the same way the religious fetishize their idols to their followers. To virtue signal and publicly shame their population into obedience. It's a tried a true method that's worked for centuries for nations and cults alike.