Sounds whiny
Thanks for posting this!
Geographically he seems to be indicting old “Union” territory. In terms of people: Seems like yankees, carpetbaggers, maybe bankers are getting called out, plus the modern surveillance state. Slips a cleverly subversive line in about Jeffrey Epstein and his clients. Lashes out a bit at recipients of welfare he sees as overfed. Expresses support for hardworking young men. Guy’s not terribly focused buy, hey, he’s taking the time to express himself creatively, and he’s got a certain style and diction that attracts the ear.
Executive pay has gone right up with inflation. Blue collar pay has hardly moved at all. I made $9/hr in the 80s in MA and FL. My blue collar dad had just retired from an $8/hr job. He raised 6 kids over a span of 20 years after WWII and always owned a home.
When I moved to MO 12 years ago, $9/hr was a good blue collar rate here. Fast food joints were paying $13/14 and then the min wage was raised so now the blue collar jobs pay about the same. A lot of people got raises when that first min wage bump kicked in.
Meanwhile salesmen and executives own recreational land around here. They drive $70k trucks towing a trailer with $60k worth of UTVs that they tool around in on these gravel roads. They obviously all make a 6 figure income.
The middle class no longer includes blue collar like it once did. We were sold out to China to try and compete with Japanese production. First Japanese electronics showed up, then those cheap cars with the horse hair seat cushions that we laughed at. Then Carter screwed us with oil/gas shortages and those little cars looked good but for some reason, the big three couldn’t make a small car worth a crap. Chevette, Pinto, K cars etc.
Unions and trade deals knocked American blue collar down from middle class to lower class. Trying to compete with people who live in villages and rooms and don’t own land, a home or vehicles themselves.
Those boycotts of walmart don’t look so silly now.
Folks criticizing his voice-
You’re. Missing. The. Point.
OK?
What a whiner. Real mean work themselves to death to support their families. He’s pathetic.
I posted a link to this guy’s video a couple of days ago.
He speaks for MANY people in this country.
I’ve listened to this song over and over again. Wow...it packs a lot into just a few verses.
Starts off talking about how hard work is all that young people do...and they’ve only got going home and getting wasted as an escape.
Living in a new world with an old soul - Society has changed so rapidly with no thought of the past culture...all supported and financed by the elitists.
Young men are putting themselves six feet in the ground - Hope has been removed for an entire generation and young men have been told they can’t act like...well...young men. It’s okay to be homo or trans but not a redblooded male...that’s toxic.