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[owlectomy]

That time of year when I'm like "Do I take a loyalty oath that I don't believe in order to exert some infintesimally small measure of civic participation, and also so that I don't have to keep renewing my green card?"

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[heliopausa]

What's the loyalty oath? Do you mean you (or everyone?) have/has to take an oath before voting?
In Australia, all we have to say is who we are (to be found on the rolls and marked off) and that we have not voted anywhere else that day.

[owlectomy]

I'm not an American citizen, and this is the citizenship oath I'd have to take to become one.

I don't feel like I could say it and be telling the truth.

[heliopausa]

Thanks - now I follow. It's an extraordinarily comprehensive oath.

[oursin]

I think Jessica Mitford was a US citizen (by marriage) at the time the University of California asked her to take a loyalty oath and she refused: shenanigans ensued (though that is pretty much a given once the name Mitford is mentioned).

[starlady]

I wish I could say I was surprised it still has "so help me God" in it, but the Red Scare dies hard.