While I'm Studying Chemistry...

Note: I'm not in AP Chem.  I was going to.  But I decided against it because I don't feel like I'll ever do anything that involves chemistry (except psychology a little).  So please stop asking me what Ulmer's homework is...

Anyways, I have recently been listening to the anthems (Poly life).  I've noticed that leftist countries tend to have badass anthems.  I was inspired as I listened to the USSR's anthem.  China has quite an interesting one too (The March of Volunteers).  And even France, where liberalism was born, HAD a brilliant anthem in "La Marseillaise".  It's not the socialism.  It's the "Unbreakable union of free republics", "Let our flesh and blood form the new Great Wall", and "may the blood of the impure water our fields!" that stirs my blood.

Then I listen to our own rather cartoonish anthem.  It's not that I don't feel proud, but there's no vigor, no force, no heart.  Our anthem is about hope, the hope that America offers.  But where's the part that makes young men wish to take up arms?  Where is the part that makes foreign countries wish they could march to our song?  Maybe we're not liberal enough.  Of course we can't go communist, but if Europe has surpassed us in social freedom, we've failed.  This country was founded to make a haven for those oppressed in Europe.  And now here we are.