Gladys Knight and the Pipsqueaks

Don Lemon on CNN warned Gladys Knight that, by singing the national anthem at the Superbowl, she may have risked her career.

We are now at the point where it is politically and personally dangerous to sing the American national anthem at an American sporting event.

But then again, we have been here for a while. How much less insane is it to declare “racist” a hat that says “Make America Great Again”? Calling that racist would imply, after all, that America itself is a racist entity. How insane is it to declare flying the flag of England in England, the Cross of St. George, “racist”? Yet now we are hearing this. Both England and America are now being declared intrinsically racist, with the implication that they must cease to be. Or, for that matter, how mad is it to object to flying the Red Ensign, or honouring Sir John A. Macdonald, in Canada? Yet these are suddenly common sentiments.

A house so divided against itself cannot long stand.

The question now must be: will Canada, the US, and Britain collapse, or will the left?

I may be guilty of being too optimistic about human nature. Hitler, after all, was democratically elected. But I would not put my money on the left.