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    Letter To America

    This came to my attention, interest (Google knows) because Bob Dylan is mentioned and quoted. See Mike McClellan Delivers Powerful ‘Letter To America’ With Bob Dylan’s Approval. It's a song about America's decline. Lest you think it blames Trump, the articles says:

    ...Mike wrote the song after watch[ing] the decline of the United States over decades and its acceleration in the last four years.

    “And now I have watched as the things I found disturbing have been amplified many times over by the ascendancy of Donald Trump and all he represents. But he is not the cause. He’s a symptom of American decline, a decline that has been evident for some time. I grieve for the America that once seemed to offer so much hope. The song is my distress at that decline. I hope they can turn it around”.
    Warning, there's much burning at the end...


    Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler

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    Mike McClellan bared up his big fat zero with no theres there, and nobody cares.

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    There was nothing there. Reminds me of the simplicity of some who see the world through glasses that see little. We are fine, stop whining, Trump will soon be gone and America will return. 2016 was one of America's mistakes, sometimes that happens. Nobody's perfect.


    http://www.commondreams.org/views/20...merica-pass-it

    'Liberalism and Its Discontents'

    The challenges from the left and the right.'
    "Today, there is a broad consensus that democracy is under attack or in retreat in many parts of the world. It is being contested not just by authoritarian states like China and Russia, but by populists who have been elected in many democracies that seemed secure."

    https://www.americanpurpose.com/arti...ts-discontent/
    Wanna make America great, buy American owned, made in the USA, we do. AF Veteran, INFJ-A, I am not PC.

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    Well, I agree with him that America has been decades in decline. The left has been turning against it more and more. Trump hasn't accelerated it so much as stood up against it.
    Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler

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