I don’t know that he’s radicalized towards the right, if you mean the GOP “right.” But he’s clearly articulating extreme anti-welfare views and blaming people on welfare for the issues of govt spending (when welfare is a small portion of govt spending). His anger is directed at poor people, instead of the wealthy who continue to get tax relief.
His video this twist is based on has him directly saying “it’s not the fault of those people, welfare is a small portion of our budget”. It sounds kind of like he’s repeating back criticism that was directed at him and maybe he’s recognizing it’s either not that way or at least that it’s counter to his broader message. It’s not a woke turnaround by any means, and I think it’s find to be skeptical, but it’s kind of what you’d hope to see after someone points out that sort of criticism is just another tool of “the rich men”.
It’s punching down for the chorus instead of rallying people against the real problems. It’s the perfect conservative anthem since it says so much without taking a stand.
If you’re looking for music like this that’s actually based you might check out Pink Williams. He dropped a song called Blame the Poor on Tiktok the other day as a response to Rich Men North of Richmond that’s getting shared a bunch on the old site. It’s pretty good.
If Oliver wants to be a voice of the working class, he may need to read up more on working class history…
These people absolutely don’t want to be a voice for the working class, they want to be a voice for white, christian, abled, straight, cis men.
The right has always co opted leftist ideas to try and gain popularity and power, this shit is no different, and it is the people who buy in to it even a little who need the history lesson, because you’re having the wool pulled over your eyes.
You know I loved this song as well. I wrote a comment about it on a country music meme here on Lemmy and recommend him. I got shit on since he is apparently right wing, a Nazi and much more. I couldn’t believe it.
I made the same mistake as you, i didn’t understand the lyrics properly and didn’t hear that stuff about fat people.
I watched his videos where he just talks and he seems like a nice redneck dude who just wants to live alone on his land and play music, so I still like him
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Wouldn’t it be wild if he gets de-radicalized by seeing the GOP put him up as a poster child?
Then we can re-radicalize him to the correct side
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I don’t know that he’s radicalized towards the right, if you mean the GOP “right.” But he’s clearly articulating extreme anti-welfare views and blaming people on welfare for the issues of govt spending (when welfare is a small portion of govt spending). His anger is directed at poor people, instead of the wealthy who continue to get tax relief.
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I hear ya. Plenty of ways people can be radicalized, sadly.
His video this twist is based on has him directly saying “it’s not the fault of those people, welfare is a small portion of our budget”. It sounds kind of like he’s repeating back criticism that was directed at him and maybe he’s recognizing it’s either not that way or at least that it’s counter to his broader message. It’s not a woke turnaround by any means, and I think it’s find to be skeptical, but it’s kind of what you’d hope to see after someone points out that sort of criticism is just another tool of “the rich men”.
It’s punching down for the chorus instead of rallying people against the real problems. It’s the perfect conservative anthem since it says so much without taking a stand.
If you’re looking for music like this that’s actually based you might check out Pink Williams. He dropped a song called Blame the Poor on Tiktok the other day as a response to Rich Men North of Richmond that’s getting shared a bunch on the old site. It’s pretty good.
These people absolutely don’t want to be a voice for the working class, they want to be a voice for white, christian, abled, straight, cis men.
The right has always co opted leftist ideas to try and gain popularity and power, this shit is no different, and it is the people who buy in to it even a little who need the history lesson, because you’re having the wool pulled over your eyes.
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You know I loved this song as well. I wrote a comment about it on a country music meme here on Lemmy and recommend him. I got shit on since he is apparently right wing, a Nazi and much more. I couldn’t believe it.
I made the same mistake as you, i didn’t understand the lyrics properly and didn’t hear that stuff about fat people.
I watched his videos where he just talks and he seems like a nice redneck dude who just wants to live alone on his land and play music, so I still like him
“He’s a bigot, but he’s a bigot I relate to, so I still like him”