U.S. Rep. Xavier Becerra is in trouble for not engaging in a socialist activity: saying the Pledge of Allegiance. It’s a case of “Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.”
As reported by FoxNews: [1]
If the Pledge of Allegiance is a laughing matter, then the joke may be on a California congressman.
A Republican candidate for Congress in California is calling on U.S. Rep. Xavier Becerra to “clarify his reaction” after the Democrat was caught on a YouTube video laughing at a suggestion that the Pledge of Allegiance be recited prior to a union meeting in Los Angeles.
The Republican, a congressional hopeful by the name of Ari David, who isn’t running against Becerra, is caught on YouTube crashing a union meeting in hopes of meeting his rival, Henry Waxman. He asks that before the meeting begins, everyone at the union meeting recites the Pledge of Allegiance.
“Hilarity ensues,” reads the article.
Well. Not really. Everyone justs busts up laughing at his suggestion that “Congressman, shouldn’t we say the Pledge of Allegiance if we all want to be citizens? Wouldn’t that be appropriate to say the Pledge of Allegiance?”
Now, many are upset that the Democrat and his union lackeys laughed at saying the Pledge. But maybe they knew a bit more about history than Mr. David?
The Pledge of Allegiance was written by a Christian socialist, a fellow by the name of Francis Bellamy [2]. He was, in the words of this website, [3] “expressing the ideas of his first cousin, Edward Bellamy, author of the American socialist utopian novels, Looking Backward (1888) and Equality (1897).”
The Pledge of Alliegence mentions liberty and justice, but not equality. While “justice,” of both an economic and social variety, is often realized as a staple of socialist/communist thought, especially accompanied by the word “workers,” the idea of equality doesn’t appear in his Pledge. This easily jives with Marx’s famous notion, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need,” which indicates the socialist/communist revulsion with the idea that people truly are equal, and equally capable. How can you reasonably call yourself a “defender of the poor” if the poor are equal in every respect to the rich, but are simply too lazy to make their own lives better through their own work and effort?
It was originally accompanied by a salute. Not the classical hand over the heart, noooo… That’s a fairly recent addition that came about during WWII, when the Nazis took the straightened arm salute from the US PoA for their own salute.
That’s right, early recitals of the pledge looked like old footage of Hitler inspecting his troops.
So to me, the humor lies not in the laughter at the idea that a union meeting should begin with the Pledge of Allegiance, but with the idea that the union had to be asked to recite a socialist oath by a Republican!
A Republican chiding unions and a Progressive Democrat for not respecting their socialist past? Now that’s funny.
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