{"id":11779,"date":"2020-08-23T07:05:57","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T05:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=11779"},"modified":"2020-08-24T07:10:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T05:10:04","slug":"the-pledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=11779","title":{"rendered":"The Pledge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cSome Democratic caucus members omitted \u2018one nation under God\u2019 from the Pledge of Allegiance during [convention] meetings,\u201d the fact-checking website [Politifact] wrote. \u201cBut the line was not excluded from any of the convention\u2019s primetime televised spots.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn\u00a0the first night<\/a>\u00a0\u2026 participants sang the \u2018Star-Spangled Banner\u2019 instead of saying the Pledge of Allegiance. On the\u00a0second<\/a>, third<\/a> and fourth<\/a> nights, \u2018under God\u2019 was included in the pledge.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What do the participants see this exercise as meaning? What do television viewers think? What does it mean to be allegiant to the United States at a time when the US is described by other members of the UN Security Council as endeavoring to forge its own definition of law? Is one allegiant to a perception of an 18th<\/sup> Century United States \u2013 that of „The Founding Fathers“? Allegiant to a pre-Trump \u2013 the US of Obama’s drone strikes rather than Trump’s? Allegiant to a Bush\/Cheney Patriot Act<\/span> US? The Gore\/Lieberman Administration which might have been? The Clinton Madeleine Albright<\/span> „the price is worth it“ US?<\/p>\n

I personally feel the familial obligation that might have me attempting to alleviate the delusions and sufferings of a debauched syphilitic mad uncle. You definitely worry about what the guy might do with that loaded pistol, you feel sadness at the angry curses he lashes out with at his family and neighbors, but what does it mean to be „allegiant“ to someone who is murderously insane?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guardian: \u201cSome Democratic caucus members omitted \u2018one nation under God\u2019 from the Pledge of Allegiance during [convention] meetings,\u201d the fact-checking website [Politifact] wrote. \u201cBut the line was not excluded from any of the convention\u2019s primetime televised spots. \u201cOn\u00a0the first night\u00a0\u2026 … Weiterlesen →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}