Loading ...A SEISMIC SHIFT ( FROM JEFF CHILDERS)
Finally, in a long string of unprecedented phenomena this month, perhaps the most encouraging and remarkable one was the appearance out of nowhere of folk artist Oliver Anthony and his breakaway viral hit “Rich Men North of Richmond,” which is comfortably sitting, right this instant, at #1 on Apple Music.
In just a few days, Anthony and his raw, heart-stirring, anti-elitist song have ‘occupied’ social media — and even influenced a Biden tweet, albeit one that misfired badly. U.S. corporate media is silent about the singing sensation. But yesterday the song’s siren sway stretched across the Atlantic to Great Britain, in the form of an op-ed published in the UK Telegraph, penned by its Sunday editor, Alister Heath, headlined “Fury of the silent majority is driving a global Right-wing counter-revolution.”
I bet Anthony never saw that coming when he recorded his viral video.
Oliver Anthony, a name striking an ironically British chord, has in fact apparently tapped into a global right-wing counter revolution. If you somehow missed the Rich Men sensation, and God bless you if you did, you’re demonstrating phenomenal social media discipline, or apologies if you were on the ventilator or something, but either way if you missed it, here’s how the Telegraph’s article described Anthony’s viral song:
In America, Oliver Anthony, a previously unknown musician who has shot to fame with Rich Men North of Richmond, symbolises this shift. He rails against low pay, welfarism, state-subsidised obesity, woke social control and rich Left-wing elites. His song … encapsulates how Right-wing populism has become the anti-establishment movement globally. It is no wonder that the Republican party has been taken over: even if Donald Trump is destroyed, his second and third-placed rivals, Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy, are revolutionaries.
Editor Alister Heath put his finger on the root in that paragraph. It’s not even left/right anymore. It’s anti-establishment versus pro-establishment. I just said that myself a few days ago on a radio interview on Stand in the Gap, carried by over 400 stations.
Although Rich Men wasn’t referenced until midway through the article, it was clear that the entire op-ed was inspired, if not completely fueled up by, Anthony’s song. Consider the article’s lead paragraph:
These are not happy times. Across the West, the vast majority of voters are fed up with the status quo, furious at the political class and desperate for alternatives. They believe society to be broken, that the post-industrial economy and globalisation generally aren’t working for them, and are angry at the vast cultural, social and technological changes that they feel have been foisted upon them.
Truer words were never typed out on a screen. (And, I like the cut of this bloke’s jib, if that is the appropriate English metaphor — UK C&Cers?). The op-ed’s first half catalogued the dreadful fallout from the Left’s post-pandemic overreach, and the second half described examples of what it compellingly characterizes as a worldwide wellspring of rightwing pushback.
From time to time over the last two years, I’ve paused C&C’s regular programming to pull back and look at the big picture. As I see it, (1) World War III started sometime around December 2019, and (2) despite appearances and occasional setbacks, we are winning. Your humble author diligently works daily to present you the evidence of those truths in an entertaining and optimistic way.
Now stop for a moment and think about what it means that Rich Men North of Richmond has become an instant worldwide viral and commercial hit. You’d better believe your adversaries are thinking about it, so you should, too. In spite of their increasingly desperate efforts, the Left is losing the war for minds. They are (still) clamping down on social media, on freedom, on money, on real estate, on safety and security, on medicine — on health itself — really, on everything they can wrap their pallid, decaying fingers around, but they are trying to crush sand.
The harder someone grasps sand, the faster it spills through their fingers.
I’ve been saving this thought for the right time, but it feels like now is the time to talk about it. Granted, the Wuhan lab leak was the most deadly and destructive human-caused disaster in history. A hundred percent. But now consider this: the Wuhan lab leak also dynamited the lid right off the most corrupt worldwide fascist enterprise in history. It also turned peoples’ hearts and minds against the largest, most well-respected and most corrupt human institutions on the planet, like the World Economic Forum, the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control, the Gates Foundation, and the so-called United Nations.
We still have a long way to go, but by their inherently unstable design, massive corrupt conspiracies must fail. They can only grow by adding people in two incompetent categories: (1) useful idiots — who are idiots after all, and (2) corrupt people, who are always ultimately ungovernable.
The Proxy War is a great metaphor for where we are in this global conflict.
This will trigger a few folks, but imagine the Russians represent the right-thinking masses. NATO represents the Leftist élite machine. NATO is throwing everything in its arsenal at the Russian underdog, but the Russians tenaciously hang on to their gains and, inch by bloody inch, between wins and losses, are slowly, inexorably, winning the war. Similarly, the Left is running everything in its human-skin-bound playbook at the World, but the World is hanging on and slowly, painfully, winning.
Feel free to develop that thought in the comments. Am I all wet?
So, to set you back on stable ground, I’ll leave you with this awe-inspiring ‘reaction’ compilation over Anthony Oliver’s song, which unintentionally is also a clarion call for sanity:
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1692016914879377837?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
People like me, and people like you. Livin’ in the new world, with an old soul. Indeed.