Sellin’ My Soul for Bullshit Pay

Aug 26

There's a reason that Oliver Anthony's angry song about about getting screwed by the "Rich Men North of Richmond" has hit number one in America. The song has been dismissed by liberal pundits as a Red State lament. But it's broader and deeper than that. (Anthony himself condemned Republicans for using his song.)

President Biden doesn't get it -- he thinks Bidenomics have made the voters happy. Trump gets it and is exploiting it. RFK Jr. -- the other candidate whom we've been told to hate -- also sees it. He's the ONLY Democratic leader who seems to. Everywhere he goes in the country, Bobby says, he sees suffering people. He wants to make the Anthony song his campaign anthem.

If we liberals and leftists on the coasts stay in our safe bubbles, we're doomed.

Let's wake up.

"Rich Men North Of Richmond"

I've been sellin' my soul, workin' all day

Overtime hours for bullshit pay

So I can sit out here and waste my life away

Drag back home and drown my troubles away

It's a damn shame what the world's gotten to

For people like me and people like you

Wish I could just wake up and it not be true

But it is, oh, it is

Livin' in the new world

With an old soul

These rich men north of Richmond

Lord knows they all just wanna have total control

Wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do

And they don't think you know, but I know that you do

'Cause your dollar ain't shit and it's taxed to no end

'Cause of rich men north of Richmond

I wish politicians would look out for miners

And not just minors on an island somewhere

Lord, we got folks in the street, ain't got nothin' to eat

And the obese milkin' welfare

Well, God, if you're 5-foot-3 and you're 300 pounds

Taxes ought not to pay for your bags of fudge rounds

Young men are puttin' themselves six feet in the ground

'Cause all this damn country does is keep on kickin' them down

Lord, it's a damn shame what the world's gotten to