Even the WaPo has some issues with it.
Significant problems arise, however, when you engage your brain to the overall messaging and visualization of this video.
It's, like, creepy.
Many of the scenes look like cuts from a Zombie movie, with troops of people mindlessly miming identical arm and hand motions, lurching forward in packs listening to a single voice dripping in platitudes and innocuous rhetoric driving them Forward.
There's also a certain amount of irony with all these right wing h8ters chirping about holding others' hands and filling others' cups, considering that anybody who disagrees with them is threatened with vandalism, murder and torture, not in that order.
Here are the lyrics:
U CAN’T GIVE UP ON HOPE EACH OTHER’S HAND WE HOLD WE’RE ON A LONG HARD ROAD BUT WE TRAVEL IT TOGETHER
WE PULL EACH OTHER UP WE FILL EACH OTHER’S CUP SO WE ALL HAVE ENOUGH WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER
CAUSE OH WE’RE HALF THE WAY THERE SO STAND UP IF YOU CARE
FORWARD - WE NEED TO MAKE OUR WAY FORWARD - EACH AND EVERY DAY FORWARD - YOU NEED TO VOTE AND SAY KEEP US MOVING FORWARD
FORWARD - BUILDING EVERYDAY FORWARD - YEAH, WE’RE ON OUR WAY FORWARD - LET ‘EM HEAR YOU SAY WE’LL MOVE THIS COUNTRY FORWARD
YES THINGS ARE STILL TOUGH NOW BUT TAKE A MOMENT AND THINK HOW WE’VE COME SO FAR AND WOW WE DID IT ALL TOGETHER
FOR ALL AND NOT JUST SOME FOR THE MANY NOT JUST ONE AND WE’RE SO FAR FROM DONE THERE’S A CLEARING IN THE WEATHER
NO TIME TO BACK DOWN WE’RE ON OUR WAY TO HIGHER GROUND
FORWARD - WE NEED TO MAKE OUR WAY FORWARD - EACH AND EVERY DAY FORWARD - YOU NEED TO VOTE AND SAY KEEP US MOVING FORWARD
FORWARD - BUILDING EVERYDAY FORWARD - YEAH, WE ARE ON OUR WAY FORWARD - LET ‘EM HEAR YOU SAY WE’LL MOVE THIS COUNTRY FORWARD
CAUSE WE’RE HALF THE WAY THERE SO STAND UP IF YOU CARE
FORWARD - RESPONSIBILITY FORWARD - WITH DIGNITY FORWARD - AND CIVILITY KEEP US MOVING FORWARD
FORWARD - WITH EQUALITY FORWARD - WITH STABILITY FORWARD - AND HUMANITY MOVE OUR COUNTRY FORWARD
FORWARD - WE NEED TO MAKE OUR WAY FORWARD - EACH AND EVERY DAY FORWARD - YOU NEED TO VOTE AND SAY KEEP US MOVING FORWARDI dunno.
FORWARD - BUILDING EVERYDAY FORWARD - YEAH, WE ARE ON OUR WAY FORWARD - LET ‘EM HEAR YOU SAY WE’LL MOVE THIS COUNTRY FORWARD
We've come so far? To what are these chirpers referring? Record debt? Record unemployment? Record welfare rolls? Record racial animus?
And where does this whole "We're halfway there" idea originate? Halfway to WHERE? And if it's halfway to where I think they're going, eh, I don't want to go.
Emotionally perhaps you had an excuse to be in love with the idea of Obama in 2008. From that emotional starry-eyed womb-like state of being which cocooned the soft-brained sprang many melodramatic saccharine videos touting the wonders of the Chicago Jesus, the light bringer who was going to shake the planet to its very oceans and tides.
Now, after all he's shown us--the pettiness, the lies, the deceit, the attempt to control every aspect of our lives, the power grabs, the drones, the greed, the out of control spending, the selfishness, the dangerous bowing to countries and agencies who despise this country--if you participate in the hoax that is Obama, you're just downright stupid.
And a zombie.
Just like the actors in this video.
You're a zombie.
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