It’s extremely creepy that we make kids recite the Pledge of Allegiance every single day in the USA. The whole point is to instill a kind of nationalism and uncritical reverence for the state. That’s why it’s repetitive, you have to train kids into it. Most of the time, kids don’t even understand the significance, and they are routinized into it. It’s an authoritarian ritual, which is about making kids respect the government and internalize a rosy national narrative that erases all the horrible things it has done (imperialism, slavery, genocide). The Pledge of Allegiance needs to go.