Country Music and the Revolution: The left hates the heart of America, so the left hates most country music

Country music often expresses the heart of America. The left hates the heart of America ("the fruited plain," as Rush Limbaugh used to call it), so the left hates most country music. The woke mob's attacks against Jason Aldean and his hit song "Try That in a Small Town," as country superstar Lee Greenwood has noted, have "struck directly through the heart of country music." Greenwood added: "Cancel culture mob attacked Jason Aldean. They came for 'God Bless the USA.' But they can't cancel all of us."

Jason's song has been denounced as "racist" by the progressive elites. The New York Times (promoter of the "1619 Project," which views America's beginnings as the story of a "slaveocracy") claims that "critics" of the song have denounced it as an alleged "call to racist vigilantism." But the song and accompanying video are nothing of the kind. Even Joe Rogan — who survived his own attempted takedown by the left's cancel mob — has remarked on the ridiculous outrage against the song.

"Try That in a Small Town" is clearly about self-defense and protecting rural and small-town America from the violence sweeping so many of our major cities run by liberal politicians. Aldean's defense of his song and video as not being in any way racist falls on deaf ears. That is because the left's actual "offense" at the song has nothing to do with race at all; instead, it's a smokescreen intended to make small-town and rural America doubt itself, to put it on the defensive, and to try to project liberal guilt about liberals' own racism upon Middle America. White liberals, after all, are the ones who contend that many blacks are incapable of getting IDs and can't find the DMV. They are the ultimate racists.

Elite progressive hatred of the song is also based on fear. The left is apoplectic over average Americans defending themselves. The left's real objection to the song has to do with its own political power and elite cowardice.

The short-term goal is to sway suburban women and independents in the next election away from the traditional values of Middle America by falsely smearing the latter as "racist."

The irony is that many of these country singers are just as woke as the elites that look down on them.

Speaking of country music, Zach Bryan just released a new album this morning that is pretty darn good. I just listened to it twice on the way to work.

Not sure where Zach stands politically and don't want to know, as I like his music.

Mr. Jason and that redbearded gentleman’s 1st, wnd, and 3rd songs have already been downloaded and shared all across America, and, very possibly among all of our G.I.’s wherever they may be!

The cancel culture knows it is losing, and that scares them.

Whiney tissuepaperbutt folks becoming ignored is a wondrous thing.

Nashville music elite are overwhelmingly woke

And not from here

CMT are mostly New York Brooklyn and upper west side media degree grads

Third or fourth Gen leftist mostly Jewish

They detest their market

Like Disney does or Bud Light did

I was privvy to observing some of their first meetings by chance

I told my wife this is not good

What did they do?

Immediately start doing programming that purloined their audience

“Try That in a Small Town” is clearly about self-defense and protecting rural and small-town America because everyone in those small towns has something to protect. Their businesses, their friends and family and their town’s history.

Big city types don’t understand that.
Rural America is foreign to them.

I don’t think ideology affects music taste all that much.

I dislike most country music; the style just does not “speak” to me.

I also dislike rap and hiphop. I once engaged in a conversation with someone who believed that the only reason people hate rap or hiphop is because they are racist. I said no, the reason I hate rap or hiphop is because it is jarring and discordant, very unpleasant to hear.

People might dislike individual songs because of their ideology, but not whole categories of music.

Jason's song has been denounced as "racist" by the progressive elites.

The same moronic far-left maggots who see a "RACIAL SLUR" in "C_NGRATS." Too many recreational workouts on crack, fentanyl and OPIUM causes this. The morons are seeing things everywhere and hearing President Trump's voice echoing around inside their skulls. Hopefully, first responders will run out of Narcan and we'll see more overdoses.

I cannot stand modern country music. Mostly suburban, white trash, herp-derps playing over produced, sentimentalist pop music... that sounds like utter $**t.

Am I bad too? Do I need to give my medals back?

I like Johnny Cash, Bela Fleck, Reba etc. - but they can actually do American country.

***Big city types don’t understand that. Rural America is foreign to them.***

Yeah, the thing they really don’t understand is we are better shots. A weekend in Chicago, New York, or Atlanta May have 47 shot, 7 dead. They try that in a small town it would be 47 shot, 47 dead, all on their side.

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