America the Beautiful

I was watching the fireworks over Jetty Island in Everett, their matt reflections spread across the bay while Ray Charles was singing “America the Beautiful“. Listening to the song as the shells burst above made me all patrioticky- in a masturbatory sort of way.-

~pre~ “God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea…”
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And then something reminded me of all the threads over the years by the Left on this board. Remarks about God and Country. But there’s nothing wrong with Godlessness if you don’t hold in disregard those that believe in God. There is something wrong if some self-righteous hypocritical Christians are held up above the crowd and displayed as the quintessential consequence of a belief in God.-

~pre~“God shed His grace on thee~/pre~

The Constitution, even though open to interpretation by the Supreme Court is considered a ‘living document‘ by the left when it suits their goals.-

~pre~“God mend thine ev'ry flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!”
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Capitalism is “out of control“ they say- quite literally. Admittedly regulation is needed but they consider competition as evil and 'choice' should be removed because it’s foundation stems from individual and corporate self interest.-

~pre~ “God shed his grace on thee
Till souls wax fair as earth and air
And music-hearted sea!”
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In an effort to polish their egalitarian fantasies, they portray wealth not as a shining symbol of accomplishment, but some abhorrent emblem of injustice.-

~pre~ “May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness
And every gain divine!”
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As the song continued, I could imagine Liberals turning their heads and sticking their fingers down their throats . But the crowd, mostly lower income people, the people that Liberals insist must be coddled, the representatives of inequality and the product of capitalism- they were cheering. And I got the sense they were cheering for much more than the fireworks …