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Well, like many you probably started your schooldays with the Pledge of Allegiance – quite an archaic thing to do, if you ask me, and certainly not a way to raise critical citizens, but that is a discussion for another day.

Now let's just take the text, overly repeated ad nauseam by 100s of thousands of students every day: "I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and the Republic for which it stands..."

And there you have your job description as a citizen – keeping the Republic, saving democracy from the flag humping lunatic, his posse and the Brownshirt enablers in Congress.

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