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[CraigD]

Originally Posted by CraigD

Nearly 100 posts and 4 years since this thread was started, it’s easy to concentrate ones attention on its title, and forget its opening post,

We’d do well, I think to rename it “America the Myth (re: the Pledge of Allegiance)”. If there are no objections, of if DD doesn’t do it first, I'll do that.

The thread could also stand, I suspect, a good moderatorly “raking” of its several subthemes into separate threads, as can many threads in this and other forums. Alas, hypography’s all-volunteer moderators have limited time, so not every needed organizational cleanup will get done.
My advice is “better place = new thread”. As noted above, this is a very old thread which was intended to be about a specific conflict between a political ideal and reality, not the whole class of such conflicts.

Originally Posted by DFINITLYDISTRUBD

I Object! (unless you mean to start a new thread about the pledge)....the fixation on one example out of several must end! if we do anything let's round up all the "pledge related" posts and banish them and polish it all off by eliminating it from my opening post so the other issues may finally have their turn as I intended......or we could simply start a new thread and divert any following posts related to the pledge to it seeing as it has been officially beat to death and there's no point further beating this dead horse here

DD’s suggestion is taken and done. 71 pledge-related posts – about half the thread - have been moved from this thread to “ The US Pledge of Allegiance”.

There are a couple of other themes, such as the flat tax discussion starting here, that could, I think, stand a similar treatment, both to keep this thread on the general topic of myths about America, and because their discussion-worthy subjects are lost and buried in this long old thread.

Any other suggestions, in this or other threads, are welcome.