"The Pledge of Allegiance was written in 1892 by the nationalist socialist Francis Bellamy. The term ‘allegiance’ refers to the duty of obedience and subordination that medieval serfs owed to their feudal lord – their ‘liege.’ The American founders, by contrast, waged and won a revolution against the Old World idea that we owe allegiance to our governments; the United States was founded on the opposite principle, that our governments owe allegiance to us. The founders would have been horrified to learn that two centuries after the American Revolution, schoolchildren would be forced to recite loyalty oaths to the government. The Pledge of Allegiance is one of the most blatantly un-American documents ever written."

—Roderick T. Long (via prshnth)

(Source: aaeblog.com, via prshnth)

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