I watched the half-time show that was making MAGA heads explode , even before they saw it. MAGA was all "HE'S GOING TO SING IN SPANISH!!!" HE's NOT AN AMERICAN!!!" ( spoiler alert, they have been citizens of this country since 1917- even if Felon47 doesn't know that)
I gave up trying to understand him- my Spanish is terrible and he was singing too fast for my ears to catch up- and I let the music and the visuals just wash over me. There were sweet surprises around every corner. I am fairly certain MAGA fainted dead away when he said God Bless America in English ( fake outrage "How could he say that?? that phrase belongs to us!!!")
The only thing more powerful than hate is love.
I woke up this morning with a song I had learned as a child playing in my head. When I was in elementary school , we had this woman who came infrequently to give us music lessons. She played an autoharp and taught us mostly patriotic songs, with a few songs written by folk singers who were not so patriotic ( Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger) but his song- which I maybe misremembering went like this :
This is my country
Land of my birth
This is my country
Grandest on Earth
America stands for freedom
Americans are we all
So this is my country to rise and to fall
Anyone out there remember it or did I make it up?
We were taught that America was the best country in much less jingoistic terms than MAGA. We were taught "Give me your tired your poor" We were taught we were a great melting pot. We were taught "E Pluribus Unum" From Many- one
The thing in the White House is trying his best to tear that apart. He had a lot to say about Bad Bunny, and I wonder if he watched it or did he watch Kid Rock sing about having sex with minors- a subject near and dear to the Pedo-in-Chief's shriveled heart?
I would like to believe that the average American is starting to see what he is: a sad, vengeful creep who is trying to destroy the country. Sun Tzu is credited with saying "An Evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes." I believe we are looking at that man every day. But is see the cracks forming. I see courage in the every day. I continue to hope.
The only thing more powerful than hate is love.
