I just realized I must be one of those detestable upper-class people John Cougar Mellencamp sings about in his song "Pink Houses"
Well there's people and more people
What do they know know know
Go to work in some high rise
And vacation down at the Gulf of Mexico
Ooh yeah
We just decided to go on our first ever Florida vacation to St. Pete's Beach just west of Tampa-yes, on the Gulf of Mexico. And I guess you could say I work in a "high-rise" in Tyson's Corner. To be fair to my man JCM, this was written while 25 years ago when maybe a trip to the "Gulf of Mexico" seemed more exotic, and now it's more affordable. But then you would have to admit that our standard of living has increased over the last 25 years-something leftists are loath to do.
How many other pop songs did we blindly sing along with as teenagers, without realizing the leftist class envy propaganda being pushed? Let's see, there's Tracy Chapman "Revolution:"
While they're standing in the welfare lines
Crying at the doorsteps of those armies of salvation
Wasting time in the unemployment lines
Sitting around waiting for a promotion
Poor people gonna rise up
And get their share
Poor people gonna rise up
And take whats theirs
"Poor people go to rise up and take what's theirs?" Yikes! Another one that comes to mind is Bruce Hornsby's"The Way It Is"
Standin' in line marking time
Waiting for the welfare dime
'Cause they can't buy a job
The man in the silk suit hurries by
As he catches the poor old lady's eyes
Just for fun he says, 'Get a job'
Can you think of any others?
2 comments:
How about some Pete Seger?
And there's always John Henry.
Another Day in Paradise by Phil Collins:
"She calls out to the man on the street
'Sir, can you help me?
It's cold and I've nowhere to sleep,
Is there somewhere you can tell me?'
He walks on, doesn't look back
He pretends he can't hear her
Starts to whistle as he crosses the street
Seems embarrassed to be there"
I believe songs like these feed the human instinct to become angry and indignant rather than face the situation and make a change. There will always be rich and poor. The cool thing is that Jesus levels the playing field. He provides hope to the hopeless and His salvation is not dependent on class.
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