There are a lot of things I just don’t bother with anymore. One of them is the pledge. Second period is when my school recites it. “Pledges their allegiance”. But to what? Sometimes it seems like it is simply to do whatever they are told. I say this not because I think it is wrong to have faith in your country, but because it no longer seems like our country we are pledging to. So why am I the only one in a class of nearly twenty that doesn’t stare glassy eyed at the corner of the room, droning on with meaningless jargon we memorized back in kindergarten? I do not pledge myself to our republic. I will not stand there like a robot and do whatever I am told no matter what our ‘republic’ does. Am I supposed to blindly follow while the government leads us to hell and back? The answer is yes. That is exactly what I am supposed to do.