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Supercalifragilistic-our-future-looks-atrocious — and Dick Van Dyke is not helping! But he might just make you laugh. The Daily Mail recently spotted the “Mary Poppins” star, 98, in a parking garage and asked him if he thinks President-elect Donald Trump is actually “capable of making America great again?” In response, the “The Dick Van Dyke Show” alum dryly responded: “Fortunately, I won’t be around to experience the four years.” The “Bye Bye Birdie” star’s blunt response shouldn’t come as much of a surprise.
The day before the election, Van Dyke endorsed Democratic nominee Kamala Harris by referencing a speech he gave at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum with Martin Luther King Jr. in 1964. Other news outlets have retreated behind paywalls.
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Already contributed? Log in to hide these messages. Van Dyke said in a video published to his YouTube account that the speech was written by “The Twilight Zone” creator and host Rod Serling. “I think it means as much today if not more than it did then, so if you don’t mind, I’d like to read it,” Van Dyke said.
“Hatred is not the norm,” he read. “Prejudice is not the norm. Suspicion, dislike, jealousy, scapegoating ― none of those are the transcendent facets of the human personality.
They’re diseases. They are the cancers of the soul. They are the infectious and contagious viruses that have been bleeding humanity for years.
And because they have been and because they are, is it necessary that they shall be? I think not.” Related From Our Partner.
