How about a fiscal pledge? I pledge allegiance to the natural citizens of the United States of America who have been sold out for the benefit of a critical mass of far too few and I choose to manifest this oath proactively through discourse and other non-violent actions. Mere waving of a flag proves nothing but blind allegiance to an absolutist hegemony (one that only reiterates the attitude of free enterprise by rephrasing it: "Let the commoner beware!"). I insist that for fairness to occur amongst all the citizenry, yes, conflict will inevitably arise but only redistributive compromise and provisional sacrifices will allow for a general happiness. Otherwise it would be an endless and perhaps even violent struggle for a populace increasingly sapped of its health and savings. Today's provisions for a stabile nation then call for offerings primarily from the wealthiest corporations and citizens---since their aggregate of wealth has become so disproportionately large having been extorted from the lower and middle classes by various corrupt and deceptive means including the commoditization of oil, medicine, food and water, and other financial debauchery. Let us mot forget too that runaway factories and out-sourcing for example have exported the value of labor to other nations and while benefitting the stakeholders some of these corporations give only debt and increased costs back to the nation.
Given these circumstances I trust government to be no more nominal a benevolent power than one amorphous form called governance (not a partitioned body of leaders, or lawmakers, rather one that recognizes that even its own power and wealth corrupts however it delegates it) and that democracy or any other form is its own worst enemy if it holds to be an absolutely fixed ethical form of governance. Governance, therefore, if it would purport to be a fair and stabilizing influence, should claim to be nothing more than that, a provisional means to this condition since it is beholding presumably to the public. Contrarily violence can be none other than the undoing of this and therefore is the opposite of governance. It might be said however that governance, as an age old practice, has had to remake itself over and over again; or as a motivating force has found itself suddenly promoting what would be its undoing, and therefore has an unholy alliance with violence---it does after all reserve the practice of physical force for itself alone. Yet there must be no end to the evolution of a diverse people however they are sustained or individually seek to preserve their identities; but let it be our desire to follow cyclically our peace as if it were a flower bending supply toward the sun rather than merely have faith we will escape from the critically resurrected fear of the darkness by standing staunchly beneath a flag.
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