Sparky and Rhonda Rucker at Govans Music Mondays

America, you in danger, girl. So goes the meme spoofing Whoopi Goldberg's Oscar-winning performance as Oda Mae Brown in the 1990 film Ghost (Zucker 1990). While the origin of the illustrative gag that replaces the name “Molly” with “America” is unclear, the rhetoric has rung true for many a concerned citizen, particularly since The View tweeted the meme from its official Twitter account (@theview) during election season in 2016. That happened to be the same day as the eleventh Republican presidential debate on March 3, between then-candidate Donald Trump, Senator Ted Cruz, Senator Marco Rubio, and Governor John Kasich (Goldmacher 2016). Retweeted on the night of the election following Hillary's concession speech (Cole 2016), the comical phrase speaks to the anything-but-funny social political ills of the “Divided States of America.” Like chronic conditions untreated in the body or cancer of vital organs, our country continues...