I was very surprised on opening your link to find this was actually a very, very good song, on its own merits. A classic protest song--could have been from the 60s, almost.
The video for the song is painful for me to watch, though - because seeing a newborn in plastic, a child hugging plastic, a child choking on masks - all my rage and sorrow rise up in my chest.
But the lyrics are perfect. I want to learn them and sing along.
So NS Lyons noted that the right is becoming cool, hip, becoming underground. Matt Taibi noted that the right has humor and the left does not. And now we have an honest-to-goodness protest song that really does say it all, and it is not from the left. Truly, it is a cultural shift we are part of.
Thank you very, very much for sharing. After watching Bill Maher's Friday despair regarding a shift to the right, I am happy to be so clearly reminded that it's not just "Oh, denying elections" that will (I hope, though I consider myself a Dan Carlin - style political martian) shift the scale to the right (or rather, once-center?). It's a matter of seeing children born in plastic sheets, for no good reason.
I was very surprised on opening your link to find this was actually a very, very good song, on its own merits. A classic protest song--could have been from the 60s, almost.
The video for the song is painful for me to watch, though - because seeing a newborn in plastic, a child hugging plastic, a child choking on masks - all my rage and sorrow rise up in my chest.
But the lyrics are perfect. I want to learn them and sing along.
So NS Lyons noted that the right is becoming cool, hip, becoming underground. Matt Taibi noted that the right has humor and the left does not. And now we have an honest-to-goodness protest song that really does say it all, and it is not from the left. Truly, it is a cultural shift we are part of.
Thank you very, very much for sharing. After watching Bill Maher's Friday despair regarding a shift to the right, I am happy to be so clearly reminded that it's not just "Oh, denying elections" that will (I hope, though I consider myself a Dan Carlin - style political martian) shift the scale to the right (or rather, once-center?). It's a matter of seeing children born in plastic sheets, for no good reason.
"Keep staring at your smart phone
Get dumber every week"
Stay strong and get strong.
God bless us all, everyone.