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One of the biggest weaknesses of the West is you can be caught dead to rights working on behalf of a hostile nation and still be allowed to run for office.
Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton is one of the great disgraces to an American patriot's memory in modern culture. Alexander Hamilton died the way he lived, defending the republic he helped build, taking a bullet from a sitting vice president rather than betray his principles. He wrote most of the Federalist Papers. He built the financial system that let a broke, war-torn collection of colonies become a country that could actually pay its debts and stand on its own. He created the Coast Guard, the national bank, the customs service. This is a man who genuinely believed in the American project and gave everything to it.
And what did we do with that legacy? We turned him into a mixtape. We flattened one of the sharpest constitutional minds this country ever produced into a finger-gun revolutionary who raps about being "young, scrappy and hungry." We took a man whose whole life was an argument for strong institutions, order, and national credit, and sold him to teenagers as an anti-establishment rebel, which is almost the exact opposite of what he actually stood for. The musical skips his elitism, sands down his real politics, and dresses a hard-nosed banker up as a street underdog because it makes a better hook.
And the cherry on top: In the musical, the historical character of Alexander Hamilton and the other founding fathers were white, but they are intentionally portrayed by Black, Latino, and Asian actors. The showโs creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda, designed this deliberate casting to tell "America then, as told by America now," and to emphasize the story of immigrants building a nation. An absolute propagandizing of history that the low IQ masses eat up and believe as fact. In a serious country he would be punished for spitting on the memory of the men who actually built this country. This will only keep getting worse as these tribalistic people elect their own members into our institutions.
That is not a tribute. That is a costume. A real patriot got buried under a soundtrack, and a whole generation now thinks they know him because they memorized the lyrics.