Lee Greenwood Warns What Will Happen If Cancel Culture Isn’t Stopped | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the The Daily Wire. The author of this post is Katie Jerkovich.

    Lee Greenwood issued a dire warning about America's future if the trend of canceling artists continues following attempts to cancel Jason Aldean over the music video for "Try That in a Small Town," which critics claimed was "pro-lynching."

    The 80-year-old country music said "Freedom of expression is under attack" in an op-ed headlined, "Cancel culture mob attacked Jason Aldean. They came for 'God Bless the USA.' But they can't cancel all of us."

    "The latest 'cancel culture' attack has struck directly through the heart of country music as the mob has come for one of our most popular current stars, Jason Aldean," the "God Bless the USA" singer wrote.

    "Make no mistake, this isn't just about Jason - who is a friend, and I'm also a fan - this is about all of us in country music," he added. "Freedom of expression is under attack. We are increasingly seeing it throughout our culture. Yet, freedom of speech and creative expression are essential to a free country - it's the American way of life."

    "Canceling artists is anti-American, it's insidious and if it gains a foothold, it will take another generation to weed it out," Greenwood continued, noting his own experience of being "canceled" and "terminated" from the National Endowment of the Arts one year into President Joe Biden's administration.

    The country singer said no reason was given but he suspected it was because he refused to "demand" former President Donald Trump stop playing his song "God Bless the USA" at Trump rallies.

    "The reason I won't give in, and the reason Jason Aldean won't back down, is we know how this ends," Greenwood wrote. "We must ensure that we don't allow cancel culture to take our freedom of expression away. In response to the cancel culture, I'm committing the rest of my life to freedom of expression, to country music, and to America's veterans who've died and served to protect those freedoms."

    "We must send a message to every queller of free speech that their actions are not welcome here and as my song says, '... that the flag still stands for freedom, and they can't take that away,'" he added. "May God bless our country music artists, our Veterans, and may God Bless the USA."

    The country star's piece included details about his latest project for what his website called "Concerts 4 A Cause" a mission "to send 50,000 VETERANS to movie theaters" in America for free on Veteran's Day for a theatrical premiere of a star-studded country concert. More information can be found here.

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It has been far too many years since the Woke theology interlaced its canons within the fabric of the Indoctrination Realm, so it is nigh time to ask: Does this Representative Republic continue, as a functioning society of a self-governed people, by contending with the unusual, self absorbed dictates of the Woke, and their vast array of Victimhood scenarios?

  Yes, the Religion of Woke must continue; there are so many groups of underprivileged, underserved, a direct result of unrelenting Inequity; they deserve everything.

  No; the Woke fools must be toppled from their self-anointed pedestal; a functioning society of a good Constitutional people cannot withstand this level of "existential" favoritism as it exists now.

  I just observe; with this thoughtful observation: What will happen "when the Vikings are breeching our walls;" how do the Woke react?

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Understanding that this fragile Republic of the self-governed is in a precarious space in our nation's vast history: What is your honor bound patriotic duty in helping to sustain the continuance of these United States of America?

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  I will defend the Constitution of the United States of America, and support all elected leaders who pledge to protect and insure the continued sovereignty of this Representative Republic.

  I am very concerned about maintaining my current life style without working. I was told that as long as I vote Democrat, I had nothing to worry about ... but now I worry.

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