This widespread misplaced pride in dissociative citizenship continues to baffle and confound me. This experiment known as America thrives through diversity, but ultimate, hostile diversity is hardly a means toward holding a society of especially disparate elements joined together. Certainly, a scheduled repetition of a pledge to your nation is hardly the kind of thing to instill real pride and sense of duty, but the level of disdain I sense from some of you toward the very concept indicates that, unless we find a way to establish common fealties within our nation(s), we're short years away from clusters of people organized purely by race and/or religion, who are so polarized against the other, that we'll be no better than the unmanageable political climate of the nations of the middle east.
The nation/state can't last.
Don't worry, it's not your fault that it's happening.... it's just depressing that it is.
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