Well then, let’s change the Pledge of Allegiance
The phrase “under God” was added to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954, when America was fighting the Godless commie bastards (in the Soviet Union, not Cambridge, Mass.). That fight effectively ended in August 1991 when the drunk beat the incompetents in the streets of Moscow.
Now, here in the States, a bunch of annoying atheists in California have convinced a court that “under God” is an unconstitutional phrase. The ruling is freaking absurd, but let’s make some lemonade out of the lemons that the West Coast courts have handed us.
Since the Godless commie bastards have been defeated (Mission Accomplished!), why not retire “under God” and instead focus on the current threat to America: Linguistic Balkanization. So let’s change the Pledge to:
I pledge allegiance to the Flag
of the United States of America,
and to the Republic for which it stands:
one English-speaking Nation, indivisible,
With Liberty and Justice for all.
Such a change would have historical precedent. The original Pledge from 1892 said “my Flag”, and was changed to “the Flag of the United States” in 1923, just before Congress ended the mass immigration era of 1880-1924, at a time when a substantial portion of America’s population was foreign born. Since today’s America has 40 years of mass immigration under its belt, and a population that is about 13% foreign-born, it makes sense to drive home that English is the language of the Republic, just as it makes sense to underscore that the Republic in question is the United States of America.
