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Good music makes it nearly impossible to believe or comprehend that our country is in such turmoil.
Listening to numerous musicians while browsing the Net and reading about the financial disaster  we  face, the music soothes my soul and tells me that there’s no way a country that fostered these wonderful musicians might be in such dire straits.
The melodies and refrains tell me  we  are amazing people.  we  have compassion, skill, integrity, spontaneity, and innocence.  we  prefer to have fun.  we  can get down and boogie all night, then get up in the morning all meaningful and go to work. Where did all this complicated, deceitful, financial mess come in? Should  we  take Congress out for a night on the town, make them dance till they sweat so they might recall how it feels to be human?
Do they contemplate anything but money? might be they need to loosen up, recall that life is for living, not for being owned by a person, that the large picture is this:  we  are here.  we  can pick to enjoy it, or  we  can pick to try to control every facet of it and anybody involved.
They have forgotten how to live. They exist to feed, to control, to breed their kind, to be superior, to feel supreme.
Yet, the music still plays for me. If our nation is as desperate as it seems, if all hope is gone, then why hasn’t the music died?
I believe it lives because there still exists a large number of humans who have not forgotten what hopes and dreams mean. Through all of this turmoil,  we  continue to turn on the music, let our feet move, and sway to the beat of love, of life, of self-expression, and to the beat of our hearts saying  we  are still Americans,  we  are not to be defeated.
Rock on, Americans. Turn up the volume! They will have to hear us eventually! Let’s make them dance to our tune!