Interesting points, not sure I agree with all of them and they will certainly be shredded by the liberal media esp the one where we name a completed wall after Trump. Here are a couple of posts on this topic from your fellow Notre Dame grads on the NDNation Political board. This one about the pledge. I have no idea how others feel but I think the pledge is downright creepy and weird. I can recall vaguely feeling that as a child-participant in the ritual and my opinion to such end has only grown stronger. There is, of course, nothing wrong with instilling values of patriotism and civic unity. But this ain't it. The Pledge is something we, as Americans, would/should make fun of a bizarro-world country like North Korea for doing. That each morning before our 5-year olds may commence peeling Elmer's glue off their fingers, that they must stand and re-affirm their promise of allegiance to the republic. Every day. In that soulless zombie kid-speech monotone. What? Pass, please. It's just...off. I'm on my civic association board and the former president liked to start each meeting with everyone reciting the pledge. Sometimes there wasn't even a flag in the room. I politely declined, with the same amount of cordiality Kelly Faulk offered me in 5th grade when I asked if she'd like to be my girlfriend (read: very little). I'm there to discuss speed bumps and to shame the residents who don't pay their dues while still bitching about snow plowing, two tasks I'm quite capable of doing well without first treating my country like a neurotic spouse who needs to be stroked with a daily game of "How Much Do You Love Me?" This one about the National Anthem. I don't think the Anthem should be played at games. I think it's weird the national anthem is being played at sporting events where the participants are all from the same country. Anyway, that board is decidedly pro Democrat (and high % of ND grads) and you'd be discouraged if you read the vast majority of posts about this topic.
That person is a nut job. There are plenty like him/her on both sides of the divide, relating to any number of social and political issues. They should be ignored simply because they represent only a small - but vocal, of course - minority of Americans.
Funny he mentions N. Korea in his diatribe. Of course he could not write such criticisms of his country if he lived there. The fact is that the Democratic party is the tool of globalists who see nationalism as the biggest enemy to their goal. Take a table spoon of guilt, stir in a handful of lies about historical events, wrap it in the delusion of equity and you've got the modern socialist Democrat. When you see faculty members of Ivy League schools being indicted for collusion with China you can see how our educational system is infected with leftists. Those faculty members at ND who wrote that letter about Amy Coney Barret are a perfect example of the irresistible impulse they have towards their political bent. As I wrote in a letter to the Observer there was no possible way that that letter could have resulted in her not being confirmed but they had to send it and embarrass the University. (They just can't help being assholes when it comes to their politics)
If this country ultimately fails it will be because we lost our identity and the core values that everyone on this BB grew up with. Unfettered immigration, no voter requirements, no cash bail, no mention of God, English as one of several optional languages, men are women and vice versa, hard work and responsibility gives way to pass / fail. work virtually and participation trophies. We lose our collective identities.