Well, Doug, I was a government employee or contractor for 30 years, overlapping another 30 years registered with the Boy Scouts, and I've lived in a heavily Republican county since I left the Government and the Scouts. I don't know about the rest of you, but I am "required" to recite the Pledge of Allegiance by powers higher than the Constitution - if I value the condition of the paint job on my car.
So, I mumble and don't make an issue of it...
Same with kids in most schools - they're "required" to say the Pledge - or get beat up by some patriotic bully.
I used to mumble and slouch during the National Anthem before every movie I watched in the post theater when I was in the Army.
I like my country just fine, but I don't like enforced patriotism. It's plain, damn jingoism, I think.
-Joe-