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These lyrics reflect completely legitimate working class anxieties but supports the system that perpetuates them. "Taxed to no end," the corporate tax rate has been brought down by lobbying for decades. The obese focus is on one hand legit since eating like shit is cheap, but it has blinders on about why that is, since it's not convenient to their point.
These parts are all completely legit, although the lyrics are pretty bad. The same things have been said by much better voices in much better ways.
Overall it's a great example of politics in America right now and how the working class is exploited by the right wing, as well as how liberal media, in the mainstream "dialogue," fails to address the working class anxieties and instead focuses on the "controversy" of the song. The coverage isn't really about the lyrics, it's about the way people are interpreting them politically, and it all favors and perpetuates the exact same system.
So persecuted that a bunch of rich guys put their thumbs on the scale and ascended his music to the charts because they agreed with the message. The Rich Men North of Richmond want total control, no not the ones I agree with, the other ones.
Yeah, I totally agree with everything you said. The anxieties felt by people on the far right are real, they've just got a skewed perception of the cause of their problems.