OPINION:
As Super Bowl halftime shows go, file Bad Bunny’s under — What The Bleep Was That?
He sang primarily in Spanish. Few knew what he was saying. It was more nod to DEI, less “yay, U.S.A.”
So of course, all the leftists love Bad Bunny.
“Bad Bunny is a free-market success story,” The Washington Post wrote in the lead-up to the Super Bowl.
Maybe. But his Super Bowl show was baffling, at best.
The problem with Bad Bunny’s appearance at the Super Bowl — and this is what critics warned weeks ago would happen — was that he wasn’t so much a musical performer as a divisive cultural commentator bringing a not-so-subtle message about the dwindling influence of “White America.” For years, leftists have been opening borders, welcoming in illegals, cheering on the lawlessness and disorderliness, and doing so for political reasons — to win more votes. But at the same time, these leftists have called out those who’ve opposed the open borders as racists. They’ve pretended as if anyone who didn’t welcome in those from other nations — who dared to raise concerns about MS-13 and Tren de Aragua affiliations of those who crossed; about the criminal histories of those who sneaked in; about the drug trafficking and sex trafficking activities of those who stole across the border — that these concerns were based on skin colors. To call out illegals from Mexico and points south as crossing into America as part of a cartel expansion was to call them inhuman.
MS-13 members aren’t “animals.” They’re all God’s children. Right, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi?
Democrats loved and continue to love the fact their open border activism was and is leading America to become more of a melting pot of welfare-dependent minorities and less one of a Caucasian dominant culture of constitutional founding days. They applaud any shedding of European ancestry and cheer any growth of minority population. They call this diversity; they call for more diversity, and inject Diversity, Equity and Inclusion training wherever and whenever they can. They seek historical revisionism to show America as built by racists, forged in racism, and therefore needful of total destruction and rebuild. It’s 1619 Project or bust!
But what Democrats and leftists really seek is a population of voters who are dependent on government for cradle-to-grave tax-paid benefits. The more dependency on government, the more elections Democrats win by promising tax-paid benefits. The more illegals, the more Democrats grow representatives in Congress, the more Democrats solidify their voting base and political power.
Twenty years ago, when Democrats weren’t so Marxist and communist in their leanings, and they still professed love for America, Bad Bunny wouldn’t have been singing at the Super Bowl, a uniquely American tradition and historically family affair, in a foreign language.
But now Democrats want to make the minority the majority. And they want to shame anyone who resists as racist.
Bad Bunny figures into this overall Democrat DEI-loving theme as a cultural icon who represents where leftists would love to see America — a nation without borders, without a unifying language, without an American Exceptionalism culture, without a Constitution that limits government, without a democratic-republic based on law and order.
For him to sing in a language other than English is a face slap to America. And that had to be the intent.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “God-Given Or Bust: Defeating Marxism and Saving America With Biblical Truths,” is available by clicking HERE.
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