Just because one of the original authors of what would become the pledge, Bellamy, was a socialist, that does not mean he controlled the message or that the Pledge served his purposes.
Besides, he likely wasn't even the originator:
An alternative theory is that the pledge was submitted to an 1890 patriotic competition in The Youth's Companion by a 13-year-old Kansas schoolboy, coincidentally named Frank E. Bellamy. Fred R. Shapiro regards Popik's discovery as favouring Frank E. Bellamy rather than Francis Bellamy as the originator.
Modern leftists hate the pledge and hate American exceptionalism and American nationalism.
The Pledge was also changed several times, including adding "under God" which the atheistic Left hates so much.
Just because one of the original authors of what would become the pledge, Bellamy, was a socialist, that does not mean he controlled the message or that the Pledge served his purposes.
Besides, he likely wasn't even the originator:
Modern leftists hate the pledge and hate American exceptionalism and American nationalism.
The Pledge was also changed several times, including adding "under God" which the atheistic Left hates so much.