• davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    15 days ago

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHnJp0oyOxs

    Well we’re living here in Allentown
    And they’re closing all the factories down
    Out in Bethlehem, they’re killing time
    Filling out forms, standing in line

    Well we’re waiting here in Allentown
    For the Pennsylvania we never found
    For the promises our teachers gave
    If we worked hard, if we behaved

    Every child had a pretty good shot
    To get at least as far as their old man got
    But something happened on the way to that place
    They threw an American flag in our face

    Well I’m living here in Allentown
    And it’s hard to keep a good man down
    But I won’t be getting up today

    That was over forty years ago, and ever since Bill Clinton’s triangulation, the Democratic party has only further abandoned the working class. Gore, Obama, Hillary Clinton, Biden, and Harris are all of this unbroken neoliberal Clintonian dynasty.