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Jon Ralston?@RalstonFlash
RT @feliciasonmez: Speaker also intro'd pledge by calling it "a uniquely Republican thing" /That's our own NV Rep. @MarkAmodeiNV2. So proud!
Jon Ralston?@RalstonFlash
RT @AnjeanetteDamon: Amodei warming up crowd at Ryan event and calls the pledge of allegiance a "uniquely Republican thing."/ My God.
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Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)I don't need to pledge to a flag to love America. The GOP has a pledge fetish. They think by saying it, it makes you more American. Any idiot can recite a pledge, it's what you do for America that matters.
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)they think saying GOD makes them more spiritual
and keeping Gays from getting married
Makes God not want to bring Armaggedon.
And hoarding guns and money will mean they will survive the apocolyps
sdfernando
(4,935 posts)the Pledge of Allegiance was written by Francis Bellamy, a Baptist Minister and a Socialist.
Bellamy's original Pledge as written in 1892:
I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)they changed it when the Nazis took it over
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)And yep, Bellamy was a life-long Socialist.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)They wear as shirts, shorts, and hats. I wouldn't be caught dead in any such garb.
yellerpup
(12,253 posts)forced "Under God" into the Pledge in his 'uniquely fascist' way back in 1954.
HangOnKids
(4,291 posts)Sounds a lot like DOUCHE.
yellerpup
(12,253 posts)although your observation about his name is true.
Smilo
(1,944 posts)He is a breath of fresh air in NV.
Mark Amodei is a typical GOPT moronic self-serving piece of garbage.