America

1.65 million of you have already seen this on the Intertubes, but still...

If you don't know the story, Newsweek published a list of top 10 "dying" cities in America, and Grand Rapids, Michigan made #10. People in Grand Rapids didn't like that. So Rob Bliss (a local event producer) and some other creatives got together and came up with this, the world-record lip-dub video, in a long, single shot. It's been picked up by all the national news services. Just search for "Grand Rapids lip dub video."

This is the city where I have lived and worked for about twenty years. Well, actually, I live in a suburb of GR on shore of Lake Michigan, 30 miles to the west. But GR is our metro area, West Michigan's business and artistic center. To many of the cultural and political elites, this is just "fly-over" country, Jesusland, where people live in trailers and marry their cousins.

But this video shows the quintessentially, uniquely American spirit. The qualities that it captures—optimism, diversity, energy, civic pride, self-reliance, entrepreneurship, joy in life, decency—are strengths that will make Grand Rapids and communities like it resilient and resistant to the pessimism, dependence, and decadence being peddled by too many of our "leaders."

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