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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's amazing how many people want to deny a man's lived experience. You need to hear and understand his voice. And maybe you'll reveal something about your own biases.[/quote]

I totally understand his experience. Being hard working and poor is the experience shared by both left and right. Poor people should unite and overthrow the rich and ruling class, be it democratic or republican. It is a false narrative that this anger only comes from the right, against the left. [/quote]

The song isn’t about his experiences. It’s about stereotypes and imaginary grievances. No rich men from the North or welfare queens persecuted this guy. He’s a simple small-town Virginia guy [b]who has lived the simple small-town life he chose for himself. [/b]The song is popular because millions of people want to believe that they are being persecuted if the whole world isn’t kissing their asses every day. They actually have fewer obstacles in life than at any time in history. [/quote]

Based on your assessment of his situation, it seems that you think life is about choices. Do you apply that line of thinking to everyone's circumstances or just certain groups of people?[/quote]

Nobody discriminated or segregated or did anything to limit his opportunities. Nobody forced him to drop out of school. He has lived the life he chose. Now he has a successful music career using the old Southern formula of blaming all his struggles on Yankees and welfare queens. [/quote]

Once again... he is not blaming "Yankees>"  The "Rich men north of Richmond" was a reference to politicians in DC.  Not "Yankees" in general. [/quote]

No one has ever referred to DC or the federal government as “rich men north of Richmond.” Never. It’s a neo-Confederate reference. It doesn’t make sense as anything else. [/quote]

The guy obviously likes word play--in this case between "rich men" and "Richmond."

See also " the use of "miners" and "minors" in the lyrics.[/quote]

The “rich men” word play still doesn’t fit DC or the government. Call us bureaucratic, call us woke, but DC is not about rich men controlling everything. Rich men probably have less clout in DC than in any other city or state in the country. [/quote]

Oh, please. Like Dianne Feinstein? Nancy Pelosi? John Kerry? George Bush? Donald Trump? John Kennedy? Mitt Romney?  Mike Braun?[/quote]

Of course there are rich people in DC but none of those people have control or authority over the things he is crying about in the song. They didn’t  set his wages in the factory or turn him into a shithead punching down at people on welfare. They didn’t make him quit high school and “learn” dumb stereotypes from 4chan or wherever he got his self-pity fix and old stereotypes. Good for him that he has found success. He can pay more taxes and write more songs about how unfair that is. [/quote]

If you're going to pretend that congressmen, senators, and presidents ("DC") don't have power and don't make decisions that affect us all, then you'll have to find someone else to try to convince. I'm too old and have been around too long to believe your nonsense.[/quote]

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