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The ‘Rich Men North of Richmond’ Are the Baddies
American Thinker ^ | 20 Aug, 2023 | D. Parker

Posted on 08/20/2023 5:56:36 AM PDT by MtnClimber

There’s been a profound societal change, and the once-fringe fascist far left is now a dominating political force — they are the wealthy pseudo-elites of Washington, and after decades of tyrannical abuse, the backlash is here.

In recent weeks, two cultural works have emerged from two disparate sources, essentially saying the same thing: Two weeks ago, David Brooks of the ever-erudite The New York Times penned “What if We’re the Bad Guys Here?” in which he admitted the obvious (at least to everyone on the pro-freedom right). Then, Oliver Anthony exploded onto the scene with his “Ballad for the Real Forgotten Man” or, “Rich Men North of Richmond”. The song is a rhetorical broadside against unlimited government, the surveillance state, and the baddies of the self-styled political aristocracy that:

Just wanna have total control,

Wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do,

What is interesting is that both are saying the same thing, one inadvertently, that we have a festering far-left controlling class that enriches itself at the expense of everyone else — as is the case with the top tier of every collectivist movement. While they profess to all manner of bovine soil enhancement in favor of equality or equity or whatever the buzzword is at the moment — like every other collectivist movement.

If you want to punish yourself by reading the screed from Mr. Brooks, you’ll find he admits that the upper crust of the far left always looks out for itself. In his commentary on the third set of Trump indictments, he predictably positions himself and his fellow socialists as the national heroes of his melodrama, bravely fighting the “monster” that is Trump and the forces of Trumpism:

In this story we anti-Trumpers are the good guys, the forces of progress and enlightenment...

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: communism; marxisttyranny; oliveranthony; richmennorthof

1 posted on 08/20/2023 5:56:36 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

And now the left thinks they are going to make us mask up again.


2 posted on 08/20/2023 5:56:48 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber; Beowulf9

Excellent QUESTION:

“Why do liberals hate the fact that Trump gave us 4 years of peace, energy independence, affordable groceries, and a safer America?” - Beowulf9


3 posted on 08/20/2023 6:00:43 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: MtnClimber
the forces of progress and enlightenment

The tip-off to the depth of BS involved.

4 posted on 08/20/2023 6:03:05 AM PDT by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: MtnClimber

Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town” is still a new song that should be included here, too.


5 posted on 08/20/2023 6:03:19 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: MtnClimber

65% vs 35%. We have had the leftists outnumbered since voting began and still have the leftists outnumbered. There are more (many many more) of US than there IS of them. The leftists know they are outnumbered and this IS their WHY to cheat and lie.


6 posted on 08/20/2023 6:18:49 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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To: no-to-illegals

That would make a great song. “THERE IS MORE OF US”


7 posted on 08/20/2023 6:20:51 AM PDT by VastRWCon (Fake News")
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To: VastRWCon

Prayers the Protest will come with 3


8 posted on 08/20/2023 6:25:16 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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To: VastRWCon

Charlie Daniels said that in “What this World Needs is a Few More Rednecks”. Too bad he’s gone now.

What most people call a redneck
Ain’t nothin’ but a workin’ man
And he makes his livin’
By the sweat of his brow
And the calluses on his hands
Now you intellectuals may not like it
But there ain’t nothin’ that you can do
‘Cause there’s a whole lot more of us common-folks
Then there ever will be of you.


9 posted on 08/20/2023 6:34:30 AM PDT by BudgieRamone (Everybody loves a bonk on the head)
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To: grobdriver

he Left’s ]rogress is collapse and its enlightenment is depravity.


10 posted on 08/20/2023 6:54:47 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: MtnClimber
They've ALWAYS been the baddies. The difference is before 1900, they were kept in check by the Constitution which was being enforced as the Supreme Law of the Land. Since then, the Left has relentlessly eroded Constitutional limits on "The Rich Men North of Richmond" with the rest of America standing silently by.

When will people with at least half a brain understand that the GREATEST threat to our life, liberty, well being, and free pursuits is the $3+ trillion, 80%+ unconstitutional portion of our Federal Government which has now become a third-world totalitarian regime?

Either we dismantle it or it will dismantle us and our Free Constitutional Republic.

11 posted on 08/20/2023 7:04:26 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: MtnClimber
If you want to punish yourself by reading the screed from Mr. Brooks, you’ll find he admits that the upper crust of the far left always looks out for itself.

The problem is they're incompetent. Looking out for themselves is normal human survival stuff. Instead they're protecting fiefdomes they shouldn't be heading. While their Yale grandfathers were intelligent enough to 'earn' their jobs, the 'very average' legacy offspring wear the pretense. Al Gore and John Kerry lived well on their father's coat tails. George Bush and Jeb the same - - and probably about 90% of DC. People running our newspapers are running the profession into the ground... press types heavy on 'children of 'elites' who got into the best journalism schools' = = can write - but lack insight that would make them worth reading.

12 posted on 08/20/2023 7:06:16 AM PDT by GOPJ (Hunter Biden’s pet name for his father on his cellphone. It was “Pedo Peter”. Jim Hoft )
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To: MtnClimber

Yep. And a not-so-surprising number of people will, doubling-down on their virtue signaling. The chasm between those who prefer to not wear masks and those who insist that they do will be even deeper than the first time around. All by design: the collectivists will don the cloak of righteousness, the ones on the ‘right’ side of history by ‘saving the planet’ with green mandates and ‘saving our democracy’ with masks and compulsory medical procedures. Why, you’d have to be some kind of idiotic sociopath to decline the invitation to go along with the program!


13 posted on 08/20/2023 7:16:13 AM PDT by drwoof
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To: MtnClimber

“What is interesting is that both are saying the same thing, one inadvertently, that we have a festering far-left controlling class that enriches itself at the expense of everyone else . . .”

We do have a controlling class. Duh. But it is not inherently far left or far right. It is whatever enhances its power, money and control. Right now, that is a fascist tending-toward-totalitarian state (in some rhetoric it sounds far-left but Italian Fascism is a much better fit). But if hard communism works better for them, they will convince the NPC’s to vote communist.


14 posted on 08/20/2023 7:20:08 AM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: BenLurkin

“Why do liberals hate the fact that Trump gave us 4 years of peace, energy independence, affordable groceries, and a safer America?” - Beowulf9

They hated Trump before he ever took office. He was a threat to them because he wasn’t controlled by THEM. Trump had to answer to the American people, and they don’t care about our opinion. THEY wanted control, so they rigged the election of 2020 to prove that the people were not important, just tax slaves. Then they instituted law fare against him because he kept coming, and now represents an even bigger risk to them. Now, they are afraid that American People might join in and come after the Liberal Left and its failures. Songs like “Rich men north of Richmond” demonstrates a visceral anger, the kind that gets rich liberal people killed. To the left, if Trump was correct, then everything they have said was a lie and all the people were hurt by the liberals. They can’t apologize, make a new plan and move on, so they continue on with the attack.

Trump being right, being innocent of things like Russian collusion and persecuted for Joe Bribems crimes, while economic failure of the Bribem administration grows in their face is apparent. This shows that the Democrats don’t represent Truth, Justice, the well being of Americans. They are the Bad Guys, and they don’t want to accept that or question how they got there.


15 posted on 08/20/2023 7:33:57 AM PDT by Pete Dovgan
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To: MtnClimber

Easy blues jazz, a little rock in there..

https://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=14643458

Happy Spirit Feet..


16 posted on 08/20/2023 9:06:15 AM PDT by aces (and )
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To: MtnClimber

Rich scummy men north of Richmond

President Retard Romney McCrooked Shumer

I know he’s talking about


17 posted on 08/20/2023 10:27:51 AM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: BenLurkin

Because Democrats thrive on chaos.


18 posted on 08/20/2023 12:12:29 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: NWFree
So am I to assume that every politician and banker south of The Mason/Dixon Line is Simon pure?
19 posted on 08/20/2023 12:14:41 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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