• Zorque@lemmy.world
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      10 hours ago

      Apparently the pledge wasn’t even a thing until the late 1800s, and wasn’t adopted until the 40s.

      Seems like overall is an indicator of modern jingoism and has nothing to do with founding fathers…

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        In God We Trust is also an objectively less cool motto than e pluribus unum which translates to out of many, one. We traded the original ideal of a people united by difference into a boringly generic religious proclamation just to try to stick it to the commies.