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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Listen to this song and pay attention to the lyrics. By total coincidence, this guy was performing at a produce stand just on the mainland side of the Outer Banks yesterday (Morriss, if you know the area) as our group stopped for our week's provisions.

I have to say it was almost.... a little bit scary. It honestly felt like the beginning of something. Like a call to arms. These people felt this song in their hearts. I've been to rallys all my life as a DC native but this was something else. At one point a good chunk of the crowd was chanting "Secede! Secede! Secede!"

I have since googled the guy and it seems he is some sort of cult hero to the far right.

I don't know if something is coming but the whispers aren't so quiet.

https://www.google.com/search?q=rich+men+richomd+lyrics&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS895US895&oq=ri&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j69i57j69i60j69i61l2.1379j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:2346f2b7,vid:uqdJsRWN1Y4

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I'm envious OP. Sounds like you were there there at the beginning of something. I just looked at YouTube. Since this was posted, there have been more than 33 million views and it's the number one song in America.

I've read some of the posts here. Everybody getting lost in the weeds about policy and blah blah blah. This is a song about frustration. About feeling left out. About feeling like you're being taken advantage of. About financial stress. About hopelessness. And the anger that accompanies it.

These are feelings that resonate across America. Republicans play a cynical game, manipulating low information voters to hate the "other" while laughing all the way to the bank. Democrats don't even know how to talk to blue collar Americans anymore.

The fact is a very large percentage of Americans feel completely detached from the "system." It's not working for them. Songs like this hit a nerve. And that doesn't portend anything good.  [/quote]

Because the system promotes an over supply of low wage workers which has kept wages flat for a generation

Democrats used to be the party of labor but now they are the party of urban elites

Change is coming.   Biden is going to lose because he has abandoned the deplorables and we know it [/quote]

I fear that this is true. Democrats have totally lost the plot. Wealthy progressive urban elites do not win national elections. Trump was a F*ck You to the system in 2016. Nobody likes him. But he is the vehicle to express rage with the status quo. Democrats - and I include myself here - are idiots for settling on geriatric Biden. Someone who's been in public office for generations and now worth many millions. He ain't getting the blue collar vote.

Biden is going to lose. And the popularity of songs like this should be regarded as the canary in the coal mine.

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