It's Still Cool to Love Your Country | Eastern North Carolina Now

   In this overstimulated and under-worked society that now passes as Americana, it is still okay to love your country. At times, one would think that displaying one's patriotic vigor is as uncool as wearing one's pants at a sustainable level or speaking in proper English, unencumbered by a poorly considered stream of relevant cliches.

   Today's society, in America, is well populated by cliques of shallow, under-informed citizens, within all age groups, all strata of class distinction, who would rather depend on the comfortable zones of group-think than embrace the rigor of real intelligence, and eventual wisdom. This limiting frontier of cerebral growth has stunted not only the individual, but the familiar embrace of the clique itself, thus creating a cancer of ambivalence in our society that reaches so many, which ultimately limits their collective purpose to be part of the larger American experience - a patriotic experience.

   Due to this shallowness in the disinterested pseudo citizen, there are grand groups of people, who have no understanding of American History - how we became who we are - and, therefore, no desire to contribute to the greater good. I see it every day in individuals, and groups, coddled to such great extremes to purchase their: marketable commerce of wants, misinformed vote, or inclusion in some exclusive group, whose intended purpose is to channel the thought processes of the individual to those of the clique, the group.
Bombardment of Fort Mchenry in Baltimore Harbor, August 13, 1814: Above.
   Lately the thought of a patriotic bent has been far removed from some social cliques, most notably, the "Blame America First" coalition - not that it ever had a foothold upon that platform to begin with. Today there are entertainers who make a good living dispensing the "fake news" because it is cool, it is funny, and sadly, it is put into certain intellectual terms that may well be the only manner that many of these consumers of this intel can functionally absorb. Yeah, its a sad day in America that we continue to coddle these lowly Americans, but I feel that it be better to expose the condition now, understand its dire circumstances, and move assertively to limit its spread.
Daniel Tosh explains just how uncool the Star Spangled Banner is, "No one has it on their IPod:" Above. Liberal commentator Bill Press says he is embarrassed by the anthem. Says it is an "Abomination.": Below.


   To that end, we must all be vigilant, and consequently, we must all do our part to effect a more intelligent, and a more responsible people. Please remember, an uninformed, and cowardly People is fertile ground for the promulgation of tyrants.

   The preservation of American liberty begins with the good initial steps of the true believer. That true believer knows our nation's history - "the good, the bad and the ugly" of it - and intrinsically respects the selfless sacrifice of our forefathers, and endeavors to honor their efforts by respecting their resolve.

   Of recent, there has been a popular effort led by some minor entertainers and long forgotten liberals to abolish the "Star Spangled Banner," which began as a patriotic poem, "Defense of Fort McHenry," by Frances Scott Key, honoring the giant American Flag, which remained, tattered ans torn, after the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Navy. The American fort, which symbolically guards Baltimore Harbor still today, withstood the British bombardment of August 13, 1814, just a mere 3 weeks after the burning, by the British, of many of the federal government buildings, including the White House,` of Washington, DC. Fort McHenry prevailed under a tremendous bombardment, as did the American flag, made by Baltimore seamstress Betsy Ross, as does the "Star Spangled Banner," which became the United States of America's National Anthem after Frances Scott Key's poem was put to the melody of a popular British Song of the day, "To Anacreon in Heaven."

   I believe the national anthem, like Fort McHenry itself, will prevail intact, but not without some effort by patriots. Today, a young rock band, known as Madison Rising has issued a challenge to other like-minded musicians to create their own rendition of the National Anthem to honor the classic hymn, and honor the flag that inspired it.

   Here below is Madison Rising's rendition of the American Classic. I hope you find it as reaffirming, as I do, of the patriotism that is still born in the hearts of young Americans.

    Alleluia.