• DarkCloud@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    The pledge in schools is relatively new, I think it was passed under reagan or something. Your grandparents weren’t doing it.

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      18 hours ago

      They made me do it back in the 1960s. I remember learning they added “under God” during the McCarthy red scare days

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      20 hours ago

      That’s not relatively new; it’s about 20% of our entire existence, with multipliers for technology gains.

      This country is young, and we have been heavily propagandized for decades.