April 21, 2023
The Day the Music Died
By Brian Parsons
On February 3, 1959, a single-engine Beechcraft 35 Bonanza took off from Mason City, Iowa, en route to Fargo, North Dakota. On board were famed rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and J.P. Richardson, “The Big Bopper.” By morning, when the pilot failed to check in, a second flight took off to retrace the flight path of the first, and six miles from the takeoff, the mangled wreckage of the first plane was discovered in a cornfield. All passengers aboard the plane were killed. This event was penned as “the day the music died” by 1970s folk singer Don McLean.
Growing up in the 1960s and seeing drastic societal changes such as the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement, the day the music died came to describe a rapidly changing culture and a loss of innocence in McLean’s song “American Pie.” Deemed the sexual revolution and the age of free love, the 1960s typified the height of anti-government sentiment and social liberalism.
Sometime between then and now, the socially liberal Left that emerged from the 1960s made friends with the government and came to adopt the authoritarianism of their Bolshevik predecessors. These authoritarians no longer wished to oppose the wars waged by the big government but to champion them. They no longer wish to defend the right to burn flags in protest but to imprison those who use political wrongspeak.
Recent examples highlight this shift to the authoritarian spectrum, such as the case of Douglass Mackey. Mackey, also known as meme poster Ricky Vaughn, became famous for his satirical posts that the Left has suggested helped to get Donald Trump elected in 2016. Mackey most famously created a meme that urged leftist voters to vote for Hillary Clinton by text, a technology that does not exist. For his efforts, the Eastern District of New York arrested Mackey on Conspiracy Against Rights charges. Mackey was convicted by a New York City jury and will be sentenced to up to ten years in federal prison.
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