What the Liberals don't realize (or ignore) is the pledge is not only to a flag..."but to the Republic, for which it stands". The pledge is a pledge of allegiance (i.e., a show of patriotism) to America. When Liberals began to protest saying the pledge in school, it was the beginning of the decline in America.
Right you are, Cowboy Bob AND to the virtues and founding ideals upon which the Republic stands!
Well, I’m a conservative, and I despise the Pledge. Apart from its breathtaking cynicism, frankly I already have a religion.
“Most Liberals despise the Pledge of Allegiance because they say that you are praising a piece of cloth (”All that for a damn Flag!!)
What the Liberals don’t realize (or ignore) is the pledge is not only to a flag...”but to the Republic, for which it stands”. The pledge is a pledge of allegiance (i.e., a show of patriotism) to America. When Liberals began to protest saying the pledge in school, it was the beginning of the decline in America.”
You have your history backwards and upside down! The origins of the Pledge of Allegiance have roots deep into the history of state control of society, socialism, Marxism, Progressivism, and Communism. In 1857 Thomas W. Valentine organized the National Education Association (NEA), the first nationwide association of professional educators in the United States. One of its earliest goals was to bring about the establishment of a Department of Education in the U.S. Government co-equal with the War Department, the Department of Interior, and other Federal departments. This Department of Education was envisaged to introduced a centralized and state controlled system of education in the United States that was patterned after the Prussian state controlled educational systeem and curriculum. The NEA subsequently went on to become what is now the largest labor union in the United States. The NEA is supportive of and supported by Democrats, Progressives, socialists, and communists in opposition to Republicans, conservatives, non-union educators, and home schooling.
The NEA was behind the efforts to organize schools nationwide, and adopt standard curricula and standardized textbooks conforming to NEA approved political and social standards. One of these standards was to associate the NEA with prmoting teachers and schools as patriotic institution in American society, and began a strong promotion of using the National Flag as a symbol of their teaching profession’s importance in the community and the nation. The NEA promoted the purchase of a U.S. Flag to be used at every schoolhouse in America.
The “Youth companion was a publication started in 1827 as a publication promoting religious values. Very popular as a family oriented publication, its orientation began to change in the late 19th Century to provide entertainment as a means of improving sales revenue from subscriptions. By 1888 the “Youth companion” was offering a U.S. Flag as a premium to promote subscriptions while also promoting the use of a U.S. Flag at every schoolhouse in America.
In 1891, the publisher, Daniel Sharp Ford, hired Francis Julius Bellamy to work with his own nephew, James B. Upham, to work on promoting the “Youth Companion” by further promoting the use of U.S. Flags at American schoolhouses. Francis Julius Bellamy was a preacher and a Christian socialist. He was a promoter of the nationalization of schools and most other public services and opposed to private schools and the private owsership and management of those services. He sought the state led redustribution of wealth to achieve economic equality and social justice. His views on these social andd political issues were like those of his then famous cousin, Edward Bellamy, who was a national leader seeking the Federal and state nationalization of all private services to the public in the name of economic and social equality, fairness, and social justice. Francis Bellamy’s sermons regarding socialism provoked his church congregation to oust him from the church. Upon his hiring by Daniel S. Ford, he endavored to practice his socialist goals through his work at the publication with James B. Upham.
In 1892, James B. Upham came up with the idea to use the Columbian Exposition and 400th anniversary of Columbus’ discovery of America to promote the U.S. Flag and subscriptions to the “Youth Companion.” To further stimulate sales and adoption of the premium flages, the publication supported schools celebrating the Columbian anniversary with U.S. Flags with a new pledge of allegiance. Although Francis Bellamy is credited with writing the Pledge of Allegiance, the Upham family found a earler handwritten draft of the pleedge which they believe Upham could not take credit for because of company policy. In any event, Upham and Bellamy brought about the publication of the Pledge of Allegiance as part of the commercial promotion and in part to support the further nationalization of the educational system versus private schools.
In 1942, the Pledge of Allegiance was made an official pleddge by a national law sought by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In much the same way as Stalin sought to supress dissideence against his regime by equating loyalty to the motherland with loyalty to the Stalinist regime, president Roosevelt used the official adoption of the Pledge of Allegiance to further discourage Republican dissidence against his labor union and other policies by appealing to the loyalties of U.S. Citizens during the war emergency. However, the salute with outstretched arm brought to the brow was replaced with the hand over the haert salute, to avoid comparisons to the Hitelrian NAZI salute with outstretched arm.Although presideent Roosevelt’s efforts to nationalize under his central government control much of the public servvices with the help of the labor unions, including the NEA, had failed in many important instances, such as the packing of the Supreme Court with his own extra appointees; Roosevelt did succeed in fchampioning the idea of social justice and socialist redistributions of wealth by the Federal Government. The NEA and its domination of the educational system assisted these efforts through its ever broadening of social indoctrination of generations of American school children. These same school children have been indocrtinated to accept the Pledge of Allefiance as a demonstration of patriotic loyalty to the United States “with liberty and [social] justice for all, with the “social” being implied through schoold curricula and President Rooseveelt’s Second Bill of Rights and the United Nations. Conspicuously absent from the Pledge of Allegiance and the NEA and state sponsered curricula is the existence, importance, and the role of the Oath of Allegiance, which is supplanted by the Pledge of Allegiance in public life.