There Is Less And Less Reason To Pledge Allegiance To The Flag.

[TheMastersNemesis]

I certainly would not pledge allegiance to the flag with any of those southern crackers. And I have less of an inclination to help. If a hurricane trashes Florida I will send money but only for Democrats. GOPPERS and other crackers can sit in their own crap. They can starve and suffer for all I care. I am finished with GOPPERS. Any one of them I have heard lately wanted Zimmerman to be found innocent. And they hate anyone who supposedly gets a penny in assistance.

When we have a party that is punishing the helpless, cutting vets short, taking away women's rights, and is racist and bigoted and still in existence and rolls itself in the flag and is still alive politically, it tells me that the flag represents a country that has turned to the dark side. As a vet I am sorry I ever served to protect the GOP POS who I am forced to live with. They have pretty much wrecked this country. The GOP needs to be ended for our own sake.

I certainly will never pledge allegiance to the flag in the presence of a Republican. I will spit on them first. And GOP trolls can go to H>

[Nye Bevan]

1. So, how will you ensure that money you donate to hurricane victims

only goes to people who vote Democratic?

And what elections do you include? What if someone voted for a Democratic president but a Republican congressman? Do you help them, or let them suffer?

[defacto7]

2. In a lot of ways I agree...

but there is a point where we have to separate the people from the politics. That time is when there is pain and suffering. I try to be a human being first and everything else including politics and country go way down the list after that. I don't pledge because there is no America to pledge to anymore. The US died years ago. What's left is an empty shell with a picture of Uncle Sam hanging on it and there is nothing behind that picture that resembles the hopes and dreams that we once had.

[TheMastersNemesis]

3. It Is Hard To Separate Politics Anymore. GOPPERS I Know Are OK With Eliminating Programs For The

helpless. All I ever hear from the ones I am around is hate and bigotry. They want and will accept help for themselves but deny it to others. What they are willfully doing is harming others who cannot help themselves. They have neither my good will nor my help in the future. Many GOPPERS I know would take away what I have because they are selfish and greedy for the most part.

So I feel no obligation to them as human being because I have seen no compassion from them. Being mean to others less fortunate is where I draw the line. I am tired of the meanness and sadism that is going on. And I have worked in poverty and labor programs the past where people have little or not hope. And I watched GOPPER legislators continually take away and inflict unnecessary suffering.

So I am ok when they suffer.

[defacto7]

5. Understood. n/t

[Nevernose]

4. I've heard it daily for a decade.

Most of us stopped paying attention by the fifth grade, and even fewer of us have bothered listening to the meaning. It's words that we've memorized that we ignore, that don't mean a thing.

Going out and making the world a better place? That's meaningful for our country. Moving our hand into an arbitrary location before chanting? Totally meaningless.