If you don't like it, don't do it. I have cousins who are Jehovah's Witnesses who don't take the pledge. Muslims I know also abstain. There are probably others.
The government won't come get you if you don't join in.
Like DougB, I question your belief that "most clubs" in The Villages open their meeting with the pledge. The weekly Recreation section of the Sun has about thirty pages of clubs listed with around thirty clubs to a page. Doubt that you get around that much.
Meanwhile, a lot of us like the practice.