I’ve always asked people: What exactly are we pledging allegiance to?
-a piece of cloth with stars and stripes?
-the land that is currently called The United States of America…the soil that is within our political boundaries?
-our government puppets who push for wars against innocent people so that we can extract their resources? The very people who will throw innocent citizens/workers under the bus so long as corporations will benefit?
-to the Constitution?
-our fellow Americans? And what about illegal immigrants or Green Card holders…are we pledging allegiance to them, too? What about people we don’t like or agree with?
-to a particular type of economic theory (whether it’s been proven or not)?
So…the Pledge of Allegiance and the moral/ethical issues surrounding patriotism/Jingoism are things that we are not allowed to question or talk about.
