Has there been any country in history - anytime or anywhere - where worshpful songs like to this to the nation’s current leader are a sign of a healthy democracy? Maybe there were congratulatory songs to Washington as the leader of the forces of the Revolution, but Obama ain’t no Washington.
The trend, if anything, would be to take a secular tune and use it for a newly written sacred (or more reverent) text. For example, “Jesus Loves the Little Children” used the tune of “Tramp, Tramp, Tramp” [the boys are marching], and “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” used the tune of “John Brown’s Body”.
Bummer is the fairy tale president. He comes riding on unicorns.
OZYMANDIAS
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1818)
> Maybe there were congratulatory songs to Washington
There weren’t. Not then, not ever. He would have forbidden it.
One of the battle cries of the American War for Independence was, “No King but King Jesus!”
I’ll venture they didn’t teach you THAT in the multi-culti, commie indoctrination day camps.