Yeah, man
forget patriotism
Its not patriotism. The pledge was created to sell magazines to schools. Only reason it became a widespread tradition was because of how scared stuffless everyone was about the godless commies.
Yeah, man
forget uhh... magazines?
i dunno
Also, fun fact of the day: It was written by a Christian socialist, Francis Bellamy. And the group that mostly defends the pledge? Conservative Republicans, who probably would rather be branded fascists than socialists.