MasterObee

That’s kind of what the whole article is spent laying out.

Please, enlighten me with your own thinking. Is it because he's saying some welfare programs are abused while the starving people who actually need help aren't getting it? What do you think of the topics he addresses in the other 98% of the song?

but then whenever it gets close to a political statement, whether about taxes, politicians, or welfare it never says anything a wealthy conservative would argue with.

Is that what your issue is? Lets see, Biden is a wealthy liberal and 50 million democrats voted with him. It's not about what a wealthy conservative or democrat would say, it's about experience. This man is experiencing working overtime, while seeing inflation run rampant, his paycheck getting deducted 30%, substance abuse, politicians having a rich peoples club, young male suicide rates and those needing help not getting it.

Is this different than the issues in the democratic run inner cities? I lived in seattle for 6 years, I can tell you the issues he's talked about are the same.

He says we have a bunch of people starving, and we have programs to help, but instead of helping, he sees the programs being abused.

Do you not think these programs are being abused? Have you been to the south where poverty and obesity are at insane rates?

Also, it's hilarious how he can touch on 20 issues that every one of us agree with, but the left hyper-focuses on one line they don't like, because he just looks like a hillbilly trump supporter to y'all.

Then project their misery on minority group

Where did this happen? You're just making this up.

with right wing populism

What makes this right wing populism?

It's weird that this song has gotten so much hate from the left. And the critique is always the same line about welfare, but you don't hear them quote the rest of the words of the song.

First off, right before the welfare line, he mentions there are too many Americans starving, he's saying that the welfare isn't being allocated properly. If you've walked through the south, you've seen this. Trashing the whole concept of the song because one line, that in a vacuum, some people on the right use to discredit welfare shouldn't be the goal.

I see so many comments saying we need to unite against the rich, and when a song goes viral saying to do that, he gets trashed because he looks like a republican. This song talks about:

1. Working overtime and getting shitty pay

2. Feeling like the life is being wasted paying bills, and the little bit of joy we get is through substance abuse

3. Politicians enriching themselves by screwing Americans over

4. Inflation being too high and what money that we do get in our paychecks having 30% taken out by the government.

5. Politicians not looking out for the working class, but befriending and partying with Epstein trafficking minors.

6. Young men dying at absurd rates due to suicide

Are these partisan issues? They seem like working class issues. Yeah, that welfare line I think is out of place, even if there may be some merit. But don't lose the forest staring at a tree. This is a protest song against how the politicians have treated the working class.

Well the author doesn't say that any of them said that, he's just assuming some people think like that.

Hahahaha of course the c/politics favorite source for news on Christianity is lgbtqnation.com's opinion pieces. This is what gets front page on this community?

Yeah, even if people don't believe fully in the bible, we can believe in many of the core values that Christianity preaches (that almost all of western civilization as we know it is based on).

We can understand that two parent households are better for children and the nation. That small communities helping each other is preferable than the government taking money out of our paychecks so they can determine what's best for us. That the way towards a more unified people is not government overriding and pushing culture.

Getting to the core of the article, the author doesn't back up anything that's said in the title. He references someone who writes for a journal that references someone else referencing someone else that doesn't like the 'turn the other cheek' verse the way the pastor was using it. What a shit article.

“GOP wants you to carry your rapists baby

There's exceptions for rape, she didn't use the exception, people can't force them to have an abortion, even if you'd like to.

then have them shot up going to school”

What? Get off the internet and stop making up fear mongering.

There's exceptions for rape even in mississippi, they can't help that the situation was kept secret. There's preventative measures against this, but they can't force victims of rape to have an abortions on basis of the rape.

Every time I see a thread about how 10 year olds don't tell their parents about sexuality or gender confusion, the answer I get is 'it's the parents fault' - is this not the same? The girl hid the pregnancy from everyone, even the mom. Is it not the mom's fault for creating a safe environment for the daughter to tell her?

some asshole Republican tells me she can’t get an abortion because it’s “God’s will,”

Pro-lifers don't say this. This is a strawman made up by the left to enrage their side.