Rich men north of Richmond.

Fattyfoggon said:
www.independent.co.uk

Viral ‘right-wing anthem’ by country singer Oliver Anthony branded ‘offensive’

Tune has been praised by a number of prominent right-wing pundits
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Sounds like it is becoming a bit of an anthem for the right wing of America
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We have to get away from this notion of right Vs left.. It should be painfully obvious by now it's rich Vs poor.

The fact you've immediately been sucked in by the media telling you to be against the song should worry you.
 
alvez_49 said:
We have to get away from this notion of right Vs left.. It should be painfully obvious by now it's rich Vs poor.

The fact you've immediately been sucked in by the media telling you to be against the song should worry you.
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Actually don't think it is the media in this case more like the lyrics and the fact right wing politicians are jumping on it maybe 😉
 
Fattyfoggon said:
Actually don't think it is the media in this case more like the lyrics and the fact right wing politicians are jumping on it maybe 😉
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Sure thing mate, this is what he has to say:-

'People in the music industry give me blank stares when I brush off 8 million dollar offers. I don't want 6 tour buses, 15 tractor trailers and a jet. I don't want to play stadium shows, I don't want to be in the spotlight. I wrote the music I wrote because I was suffering with mental health and depression. These songs have connected with millions of people on such a deep level because they're being sung by someone feeling the words in the very moment they were being sung. No editing, no agent, no bull****. Just some idiot and his guitar. The style of music that we should have never gotten away from in the first place.

My legal name is Christopher Anthony Lunsford. My grandfather was Oliver Anthony, and "Oliver Anthony Music" is a dedication not only to him, but 1930's Appalachia where he was born and raised. Dirt floors, seven kids, hard times. At this point, I'll gladly go by Oliver because everyone knows me as such. But my friends and family still call me Chris. You can decide for yourself, either is fine.

In 2010, I dropped out of high school at age 17. I have a GED from Spruce Pine, NC. I worked multiple plant jobs in Western NC, my last being at the paper mill in McDowell county. I worked 3rd shift, 6 days a week for $14.50 an hour in a living hell. In 2013, I had a bad fall at work and fractured my skull. It forced me to move back home to Virginia. Due to complications from the injury, it took me 6 months or so before I could work again.

From 2014 until just a few days ago, I've worked outside sales in the industrial manufacturing world. My job has taken me all over Virginia and into the Carolinas, getting to know tens of thousands of other blue collar workers on job sites and in factories. Ive spent all day, everyday, for the last 10 years hearing the same story. People are SO damn tired of being neglected, divided and manipulated.

In 2019, I paid $97,500 for the property and still owe about $60,000 on it. I am living in a 27' camper with a tarp on the roof that I got off of craigslist for $750.

There's nothing special about me. I'm not a good musician, I'm not a very good person. I've spent the last 5 years struggling with mental health and using alcohol to drown it. I am sad to see the world in the state it's in, with everyone fighting with each other. I have spent many nights feeling hopeless, that the greatest country on Earth is quickly fading away.

That being said, I HATE the way the Internet has divided all of us. The Internet is a parasite, that infects the minds of humans and has their way with them. Hours wasted, goals forgotten, loved ones sitting in houses with each other distracted all day by technology made by the hands of other poor souls in sweat shops in a foreign land.

When is enough, enough? When are we going to fight for what is right again? MILLIONS have died protecting the liberties we have. Freedom of speech is such a precious gift. Never in world history has the world had the freedom it currently does. Don't let them take it away from you.

Just like those once wandering in the desert, we have lost our way from God and have let false idols distract us and divide us. It's a damn shame.'


Not right or left wing it's just a person who's been through a tough life singing a song that resonates with blue collar people. Does it mean he's wise? No does it mean he understands the complexity of the world? No
Does it make the lyrics in his song wrong or right wing? No.
 
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Just got round to listening to this, what an amazing voice. Can hear real pain in his voice in parts.
 
If ever there was an example of “right/left” actually having a common enemy but not being able to see it, this is it. And that enemy certainly isn’t fat people.

Made me think of the track “Rockin’ in the Free World” by Neil Young. Actually used by Trump on more than one occasion, much to Young’s dismay.
 
Ultimately, Right Wing populism like this reinforces the rich-poor divide as it lets the wealthy off the hook by finding scapegoats like the 'undeserving poor', migrants or sexual/ethnic minorities to demonise.

It perpetuates the cycle as, once these groups are 'punished', nothing actually changes as they weren't at fault to begin with. Meaning new targets need to be found for why The People continue to suffer. The rich may be identified as a problem, but no meaningful action is ever taken.
 
On the same subject, it's plain that capitalism - or more accurately, unrestrained economic liberalism - has failed ordinary working class people. Trickle down theory remained just that - a theory, a con trick. Depressingly, those who have been left behind, or more accurately excluded, then turn their blame onto other fellow strugglers. I've just finished reading a very depressing book by someone who grew up in a Durham pit village, in which he describes himself as a socialist but is in reality the worst kind of Thatcherist. He professes to hate her and yet there he is, a millionaire, raining down his approbation on anyone who struggles so much they have to subsist on benefits.
 
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