I AM 81 AND HAVE ALWAYS ADMIRED YOUR ABILITY TO CONVEY YOUR FEELINGS THRU SONG....SIMILAR TO THE GREAT JUDY GARLAND, YOUR SINGING IS FULL OF WARMTH AND TRUE DEVOTION...SO SEEING THIS CLIP NOW ONLY VERIFIES MY ADMIRATION FOR YOU...GOD BLESS YOU MELISSA...

Well-said, Melissa! 'A Beautiful Rainbow' is brilliant! You speak for many of us.

I love you, Melissa!

thank you for being such a positive voice and inspiration to us all.

In America we do not live in a democracy, we live in a constitutional republic. There is a distinct difference, and words matter in real life just as they do in song.

Pretty, ultra talented, and smart. What a treasure she is. No matter what your ideology is, get out and let your voice be heard…even if we disagree.

I already voted of course and am just seeing this lovely video. Thank you very much Melissa for the inspiring, elegant song. Optimism is truly one of your gifts as a writer - I think of songs like “Happy Endings,” “Angels Dancing,” “Better Days,” even “The Dream.” Thank you for that gift, and for doing your part to help the blue wave.

As the late GREAT George Carlin reminded us, you got that backwards - if you DON'T vote, you have the right to complain... and yes, I served honorably in the United States Navy in a combat zone, so before anybody tries to get on top of that soap box of false piety of their nontheistic cult of self righteous & smug indignation. Here's George Carlin on the subject -- "Now there’s one thing you might have noticed i don’t complain about: politicians. everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t fall out of the sky. They don’t pass through a membrane from “another reality”. They come from American parents, and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses, and American universities. And they’re elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It’s what our system produces: Garbage in. Garbage out. If you have selfish ignorant citizens… If you have selfish ignorant citizens, you’re going to get selfish ignorant leaders. And term-limits ain’t going to do you any good. You’re just going to wind up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So maybe… maybe… MAYBE, it’s not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here like: “THE PUBLIC”. Yeah the public sucks. There’s a nice campaign slogan for somebody: “the public sucks, fuck hope”. Fuck hope. Because if it’s really just the fault of these politicians, then where are all the other bright people of conscience? Where are all the bright, honest, intelligent Americans ready to step in and save the nation and lead the way? We don’t have people like that in this country. Everybody’s at the mall scratching his ass, picking his nose, taking out his credit card out of a fannie-pack, and buying a pair of sneakers with lights in them. So I have solved this little political dilemma for myself in a very simple way: on election-day, I-STAY-HOME. I don’t vote. Fuck ’em. FUCK THEM. I don’t vote. Two reasons. Two reasons I don’t vote: first of all, it’s meaningless. This country was bought and sold and paid for a long time ago. The shit they shuffle around every four years doesn’t mean a fuckin’ thing. And secondly, I don’t vote ’cause I believe if you vote, you have no right to complain. People like to twist that around. I know, they say, they say: “well if you don’t vote you have no right to complain”. But where’s the logic in that? If you vote, and you elect dishonest, incompetent people, and they get into office and screw everything up, well you are responsible for what they have done, YOU caused the problem, you voted them in, you have no right to complain. I on the other hand, who did not vote, WHO DID NOT VOTE. Who in fact did not even leave the house on election-day, am in no way responsible for what these people have done, and have every RIGHT to complain as loud as I want, about the mess YOU created, that I had nothing to do with. So I know that a little later on this year, you’re going to have another one of those really swell presidential elections that you like so much. You enjoy yourselves. It will be a lot of fun. I’m sure as soon as the election is over, your country will “improve” immediately. As for me, I’ll be home on that day, doing essentially the same thing as you, the only difference is, when I get finished masturbating, I’m going to have a little something to show for it folks."

I would vote if they demolished the two party system and give us better options.

I will vote! REPUBLICAN!!!!!

Trump 2020!