That particular anthem may be the most incisive summary ever,
of the American zeitgeist (then, via Kate Smith) and now, via the Murican one (via that lengthy contemporary list.)
Clearly Irving Berlin was more conversant with American-psyches than any trainer of Psychologists;
his ken magnified by his vast musical talent would, I think dwarf GÅbbels' mere word-salad talents by an order of magnitude.
The vignette is complete: it becomes the only-anthem-you-need for going the whole-hog (including the postage)
into the fantasy-Murica today inhabited by (that list.) It's bulletproof, completely impervious to any rebuttal,
correction, (wry-aside) or full-on frontal attack. It's Shrub-writ-Large:
You're WIth US(A) or You're against US(A)
Clearly Irving Berlin was more conversant with American-psyches than any trainer of Psychologists;
his ken magnified by his vast musical talent would, I think dwarf GÅbbels' mere word-salad talents by an order of magnitude.
The vignette is complete: it becomes the only-anthem-you-need for going the whole-hog (including the postage)
into the fantasy-Murica today inhabited by (that list.) It's bulletproof, completely impervious to any rebuttal,
correction, (wry-aside) or full-on frontal attack. It's Shrub-writ-Large:
You're WIth US(A) or You're against US(A)