You don’t need a college degree to understand what’s happening in our country.
Oliver Anthony, the songwriter behind the viral hit “Rich Men North of Richmond,” didn’t even finish high school.
But his song is the most intelligent political commentary of the year.
That’s because there are two parts to it, though most critics and many admirers have only picked up on one.
The song isn’t simply a class-war complaint — the trouble with the rich men north of Richmond isn’t that they’re rich, it’s that “they all just wanna have total control / Wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do.”
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