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Old 09-10-2019, 08:49 PM
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TOO MANY DEMOCRATS –

TOO MANY REPUBLICANS –

NOT ENOUGH GOOD PATRIOTIC LOYAL AMERICANS!


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Old 09-11-2019, 05:45 AM
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HC that's a good way to put it.
But that's what makes America Great!
But you left off the independents?

Loyal - If you are faithful and devoted to someone or something, you're loyal. If you refuse to buy milk from anyone other than Farmer Jones, then you're a very loyal customer.

Someone who is loyal is reliable and always true, like your trusty dog. Loyal comes from the Old French word loial which means something like "legal," but if someone is only loyal to you because the law requires him to be, that's not true loyalty, which should come from the heart, not a contract. A loyal friend supports you all the time, no matter what.

Or;

What We Have to See

In order to be loyal, we have to see what the person or thing to whom we’re loyal most deeply is. And that is not the same as what he, or it, may be doing at a particular moment.

The largest purpose of everyone, Aesthetic Realism explains, is to like and see rightly the world itself. That purpose in a person is the thing to which we need to be loyal. Allegiance to a person is to encourage the person’s care for the world, fairness to the world. Certainly, it is to want to counter anything—from the outside or from the person himself—which hurts him and makes him weaker.

True allegiance includes a state of mind like this: “I am faithful to you, my dear friend, and therefore I tell you that the way you spoke to that person yesterday was unjust. You yourself don’t like yourself for it. The way you acted is against who you really are, who you most want to be. I want to encourage the best in you—I care for you that much!”

The “allegiance” that says, “You’re my buddy, so whatever you do, I’m for. Even if you’re wrong, I’m with you”—is contempt. Mr. Siegel showed contempt to be the most dangerous, hurtful thing in each of us. Contempt is the making of ourselves—and what we associate with ourselves—better than the rest of the world, and the feeling we “have the right to see other people and things pretty much as [we] please.”*

What is true about loyalty to a person is true about allegiance to a land. The question of what it means to be loyal to America is a beautiful question. America is not the same as the policies of someone running America. America is not the same as the results of some opinion poll. America is a certain relation of earth and humanity, which, in its rich particularity, was meant to be exact about all earth and humanity. There is terrible contempt in feeling, Because this person—or family—or gang—or country—is connected with me, he or it must be right, and superior to all others.

All this concerns the Pledge of Allegiance and America now. If the Pledge is to be said, the people saying it, of whatever age, should be encouraged to look deeply and exactly at the meaning of every word. Otherwise it becomes an ego caress, or a contemptuous routine—with contempt for the statement itself, for America, and for the world.

What Republic Means

The next phrase is “to the flag of the United States of America.” We have that important thing in mind and art: a symbol. Obviously, the flag as cloth, color, pattern, is not what one should be faithful to. The flag stands for something. What it stands for is in the next phrase: “and to the Republic for which it stands.”

The flag, then, stands for a republic, which means—from the Latin res publica—public thing. And the significance of republic, the difference between a republic and, for instance, a monarchy, is a terrific matter in history. If we look at what the Pledge says, we see that allegiance to America involves the meaning of a republic: we are pledging allegiance to a public thing. That is, we are saying we will be loyal to a nation designed to be governed by the people as such, by all the people. If our pledging allegiance doesn’t include our wanting to make sure everything in America is in keeping with its being a real Republic, we should know that we are hypocrites and liars as we pledge.

How the Author Saw

The author of the Pledge of Allegiance was Francis Bellamy. He was a socialist, and a Baptist minister. He worked for the popular magazine The Youth’s Companion, which was a sponsor, in 1892, of a celebration by the American public schools. The children were celebrating the 400th anniversary of Columbus’s discovery of America. And Bellamy wrote the Address for that occasion, and also a Pledge for the children to say while saluting the flag: this was the Pledge of Allegiance.

Francis Bellamy’s cousin was the noted reformer Edward Bellamy, an intense opponent of capitalism, founder of a movement called Nationalism. This was a movement to have the industry of the United States nationalized, owned by the people as such; and Francis Bellamy agreed with his cousin and was of that movement. The nationalizing which the Bellamys were so passionate about is in keeping with the meaning of the word at the center of the Pledge: republic. Francis Bellamy wanted the children to love the idea of a republic—an America that belonged truly to the people—and to give their allegiance to that idea. Republic would mean, and Bellamy knew it, that every person, every child, should own America, including her industry.

The next phrase in the original Pledge is “one nation indivisible.” The Civil War had been won less than 30 years earlier. The fact that the US was not something that could be divided, was a tremendous victory for justice over ego and contempt. The Southern states had felt, We want to own other human beings, and if the US doesn’t go along, we’re leaving. They were not permitted to, and that fact was beautiful! Bellamy’s phrase “one nation indivisible” is both a proud statement of the fact, and a resolve, which he felt Americans should have, that the fact continue. In 1954, “under God” was inserted in the midst of that phrase.

What about “Liberty and Justice”?

We come now to “with liberty and justice for all.” So much hinges on the meaning of this phrase in relation to the rest of the pledge. Is it a saying that “liberty and justice for all” is what we fully have now; or that a “Republic…with liberty and justice for all” is what America was meant to be and what we pledge to go after, make real?

As a socialist, Bellamy was quite aware that there wasn’t liberty and justice for all. He was quite clear about the fact that when some people are poor and others are rich, there is not justice, or liberty either. Persons have recited that phrase routinely, smugly, as part of the Pledge, but to do so is entirely against the intention behind it. Bellamy knew that little children were working in factories; people were living pained, diseased lives in slums; men and women were working in sweatshops for wages that couldn’t feed their families.

In the Address he wrote for a representative young person at each school to say during that 1892 celebration, in company with the Pledge of Allegiance, Bellamy makes plain that liberty and justice were things still to be sought. These are words from the Address, and the future tense is clear: “We, the youth of America,…pledge ourselves…that America shall mean equal opportunity and justice for every citizen, and brotherhood for the world.”

Every strike, every demonstration, so much legislation has been a saying, There is not yet liberty and justice, and our purpose is to get these! The idea of having a child who was deprived of breakfast come to school and say the America in which she now lives has liberty and justice for all, is viciously ludicrous. No. Bellamy knew that “liberty and justice for all” are what America, in her governmental structure, stands for, and to be loyal to America is to work to have that liberty and justice really be.

So if we do say the Pledge of Allegiance we should feel we are saying: “This flag stands for a republic with liberty and justice for all. The Declaration of Independence does. The US Constitution does. And we have to make sure that that republic comes fully into being. We owe it to you, America, to have you be what you truly want to be, and were designed to be: a nation fair to everyone.”

Eli Siegel, as I have said in previous TROs, loved America with a deep, wide, exact, and critical love that I have never seen surpassed, or equaled. America needs his beautiful honesty and knowledge in order to be truly herself: in order to be strong, kind, and safe.
—Ellen Reiss, Aesthetic Realism
Chairman of Education


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Note: Loyalty - Doesn't look for rewards (like some we know).
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