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From: Cindy Hamilton <chamilton5280@invalid.com>
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Date: Sun, 4 May 2025 09:17:10 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-05-04, Leonard Blaisdell <leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 2025-05-03, dsi1 <dsi100@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> In our club, we say the American pledge of allegiance at the start of
>> meetings. I thought it was peculiar that the old guy next to me left out
>> the words "under God" which threw me off beat. I asked him about it and
>> he said that's the way he learned it and he gets mixed up sometimes. It
>> seems that those words were added to the pledge in 1954, when the
>> Americans were gripped with fear of the commies. It was added because a
>> commie can't say those words without stopping to spit. It was a way to
>> ferret out the true commies in our midst.
>
>
> Yup, I was in the third grade during the lyrics change, and it took a
> few renditions before everybody got in sync. 
> Unfortunately, the commies adapted and call themselves "progressive"
> now. Ain't words great!

Could you provide your definition of "communism"?

-- 
Cindy Hamilton