08-18-2023, 03:54 PM
I think this is a good summary of the political debate on the song from The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/08/the-misguided-debate-over-rich-men-north-of-richmond/675046/
and a New Yorker article about it: https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/a-close-listen-to-rich-men-north-of-richmond
Out of all the articles I have read on the song, I think those two do the best job of the discussion surrounding is and how misguided it seems to be. People are so deep into the divisions that those rich men north of Richmond are pushing upon us that they want to take a song decrying exactly that, and use it to divide us even more.
and a New Yorker article about it: https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/a-close-listen-to-rich-men-north-of-richmond
Out of all the articles I have read on the song, I think those two do the best job of the discussion surrounding is and how misguided it seems to be. People are so deep into the divisions that those rich men north of Richmond are pushing upon us that they want to take a song decrying exactly that, and use it to divide us even more.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
