It seems to be a pitfall of the thinking “it can’t happen here.”

  • Norah (pup/it/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    16 hours ago

    Yeah, as an Australian, when I learnt as a teen that they do the “pledge of allegiance” everyday in school, I kind of wondered how easy it would be to hijack that into something evil.

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      They slipped “God” into it in the 1950s. So probably a sizable factor in why we have Christian nationalists now

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      I remember doing it in elementary school, but not later on. I can say that as a kid it doesn’t mean shit. It’s just an annoying chore you have to do to start the day.