The New America needs a new national anthem! Here’s my nomination.

Summary: We have become a new nation, and so need a new national Anthem.  Just as the old anthem reflected the spirit and needs of the Republic, so should our new anthem. Here’s my nomination. Post yours in the comments!

The “Star Spangled Banner” fit The-America-That-Once-Was, a defiant song of a free people, often fighting to defend their Republic.  It ill-suits a somnolent and obese people, whose armies fight to maintain a foreign empire that benefits only the 1%.

Here is a suggestion from the past about a national anthem for The New America. It has lyrics suitable for a plutocracy, reflecting the attitude of our ruling elites.  The sing of their stark realism, which belies a popular delusion today that our ruling elites are fools.  In fact they are, as they have always been, cool considerate men. Don’t count on them making large mistakes, or many of them.

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Lyrics to the new nation anthem for The New America

Come ye cool cool conservative men
The likes of which may never be seen again
We have land, cash in hand
Self-command, future planned
Fortune flies, society survives
In neatly ordered lives with well-endowered wives

We sing hosanna, hosanna
To our breeding and our banner
We are cool

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Come ye cool cool considerate set
We’ll dance together to the same minuet
To the right, ever to the right
Never to the left, forever to the right
May our creed be never to exceed
Regulated speed, no matter what the need

We sing hosanna, hosanna
Enblazoned on our banner
Is keep cool

To the right, ever to the right
Never to the left, forever to the right
We have gold, a market that will hold
Tradition that is old, a reluctance to be bold.

I sing hosanna, hosanna
In a sane and lucid manner
We are cool

Come ye cool cool considerate men
The likes of which may never be seen again
With our land, cash in hand
Self-command, future planned
And we’ll hold to our gold
Tradition that is old, reluctant to be bold.

We cool, cool, cool
Cool, cool, cool
Cool cool men.

This is an excerpt from the lyrics of “Cool Considerate Men” from the musical “1776”.

It need not be like this

See these posts for description of an alternative path for America:

• Now is the time for America to get angry, 24 March 2009
• They need not use force to take over, 16 July 2012

Advice from the Past

1. From the 3rd century BC, Polybius warns us about demographic collapse, 11 June 2008
2. President Grant warns us about the dangers of national hubris, 1 July 2008
3. de Tocqueville warns us not to become weak and servile, 21 July 2008
4. Dr. Gulliver explains why America has become so fearful of the future, 23 October 2008
5. The King of Brobdingnag comments on America’s grand strategy, 18 November 2008
6. About the state of economic science, and advice from a famous economist, 8 December 2008
7. Napoleon’s advice to President Obama about the financial crisis, 29 April 2009
8. A warning from Alexis De Tocqueville about our military, 7 August 2009
9. Another note from our past, helping us see our future, 16 September 2009 — by Daniel Ellsberg
10. A note from America’s diary: “My power proceeds from my reputation…” rel=”bookmark”, 22 September 2009
11. A great philosopher and statesman comments on the Bush-Obama tweaks to the Constitution, 10 October 2010 — by Edmond Burke
12. A top businessman and banker explains our political and economic challenges, 30 April 2011
13. A warning from the past.  Might the American Empire drag down America?, 4 August 2011
14. Advice from one of the British Empire’s greatest Foreign Ministers, 18 November 2011 — by Lord Palmerston
15. George Orwell sends us a note, giving some perspective on our situation, 22 January 2012
16. Thomas Jefferson saw our present peril. We should heed his warning., 21 April 2012
17. Rome speaks to us. Their example can inspire us to avoid their fate., 22 April 2012

The anthem of The-America-That-Once Was

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