Start your own revolution, and cut out the middle man

[cyrano]

"Our founding fathers must be spinning in their graves. This is the worst kind of political correctness run amok."
— Sen. Christopher Bond, R-Missouri

Hmmmm. It's odd that our founding fathers saw no need to include God in a Pledge of Allegiance. Maybe they're just slapping their foreheads and saying "D'oh" in their graves because they forgot.
The phrase "under God" was crammed into the Pledge by Tailgunner Joe to protect the world from the infection of Communism about 150 years after we protected the colonies from the infection of Imperialism. It's done its job, and it's earned a cushy retirement.
Despite claims from the Congress and the layman that removing these two words will cause rioting and anarchy. But we established a republican democracy without it, we fought 'The Great War' and won without it, we bought the Louisiana Purchase and expanded to the Pacific without it, we abolished slavery without it. We got Watergate and Iran-Contra and Operation Desert Maxi-Shield and Bill Clinton's Hummerfest with it.
It's not the final sign of the apocalypse. I think it's a sign that we are having troubles staying whipped up into a frenzy over terrorism.

Edit
Now that it's not early in the morning, I'd like to rephrase my main point in more coherent fashion. (After all the commentary has been finished....) "The worst kind of political correctness run amok" is where people actually suffer--kids suspended from school for having a bottle of aspirin, a city councilman called upon to resign for using the word 'niggardly'--not because two words are taken out of a loyalty oath that had been tacked on fifty years ago. And using those two words as a political vehicle to take a joyride around the media is inexcusible given the number of actual problems--things that actually need to be dealt with--we have facing us currently.

Comments

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

It's been long enough since I was in elementary school (I didn't have to take loyalty oaths in secondary school) that I can't accurately say what the social situation is like when the class stands to recite the pledge. And no, it's probably not that big a deal. But if you had all the kids stand up and say "I love my country and rough sex" I bet there'd be a really different reaction.
(Communist salute? Which one is that?)

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[aerin-pegadrak.livejournal.com]

Stand at attention, right arm extended in the air like you see in the old Nazi newsreels. At the end, they said "Heil!" really loudly. It was rather amusing when you knew they were kidding (the assistant principal walked in one day and had a fit).