This was an anticommunist addition during McCarthyism, but they couldn’t just outright say “under capitalism.”

Well the whole pledge is creepy as fuck to an outsider like me. It looks like a caricature of indoctrination that one would find in a subpar dystopian novel…

The first time I saw it I literally got goosebumps

Oh, you mean when they violated separation of church and state? Yeah, that was pretty cool. /s

I’ll pledge allegiance to the flag when it stands for something worth being proud of.

It was a very weird time, but thankfully we pulled back from embracing the Bellamy Salute… some events in formerly Weimar Germany made that too uncomfortable