re: #307 BeachDem

I don’t put my hand on my heart for the anthem; I don’t say the “under God” words in the pledge; I guess I can never run for President. Damn.

I remember when “under God” came into the pledge, thanks to the Knights of Columbus. Funny thing is, half of the old lady schoolteachers in my very southern town either mumbled over or entirely skipped “indivisible,” since dear old grandpappy had fought precisely to make the nation divisible.

I’m so tired of all this patriotic crap. Has there ever been a more insecure so-called superpower, that we have to keep swearing fealty to it all the time? The anthem at games wasn’t always a thing, it only came along with a war, either WWI or WWII. Until after 9/11 the seventh-inning stretch was for “Take Me out to the Ballgame.” Now either “America the Beautiful” or “God Bless America” is mandatory almost everywhere. All military are heroes. So are all cops. Just fuck it.