https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bellamy
Francis Julius Bellamy (May 18, 1855 – August 28, 1931) was an American Christian socialist Baptist minister and author.[1] He is best known for writing the original version of the Pledge of Allegiance in 1892.
I bet that most of those people if told there was a country (without telling them which country it was) whose constitution says they must “promote the general Welfare” would say that it must be a Communist country.