70 years of shame (en.m.wikipedia.org)

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The phrase "under God" was incorporated into the Pledge of Allegiance on June 14, 1954, 70 years ago today.

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[-] davel@lemmy.ml 18 points 5 months ago

This was an anticommunist addition during McCarthyism, but they couldn’t just outright say “under capitalism.”

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