26 February 2016

Forget last night’s debate; remember this land was made for you and me

By the time last night’s Republican debate finished, I was ready to throw my mouse through my computer’s monitor, quaff a double Wild Turkey, and then quaff another. A lot of the world was watching — and what our friends and foes saw was the politics of anger and malice, the politics that brings freedom to its knees, not the politics of hope that leads to better days.

We had the politics of hope eight years ago, and I’m for getting it back.

Pete Seeger was nearing the end of his 90th year when he, Bruce Springsteen, Tao Seeger, and a powerful chorus, closed the 2009 inaugural concert with a joyful rendering of Woody Guthrie’s This Land is Your Land. Forget last night’s debate. Remember this: