This 7 October 2017 video is about extreme right Milo Yiannopoulos, a right-wing racist in a child abuse scandal, singing America the Beautiful to an audience of United States neofascists doing the Hitler salute.
How ironic, as the original poem America the Beautiful is by Katharine Lee Bates, a feminist, a lesbian, a Christian socialist and an anti-imperialist.
America the Beautiful is today often sung by Right wingers in the USA, wallowing in chauvinist ‘patriotism’ (as in ‘Patriot Act‘).
Little do they know about its author and her intentions when writing: everything which the Bushes, Cheneys, Rumsfelds, Pat Robertsons, Milo Yiannopouloses and Donald Trumps of today hate. Katharine Lee Bates in the poem attacked capitalist profit mongering,
Beautiful video!
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