Just hardening his fans to him. Aldean becomes a beacon, a rallying point for people just like him.
Meanwhile, the holier-than-thou police, most of whom have never heard of Jason Aldean, or only through the controversy of his wife vis-a-vis Maren Morris, are up in arms like their agitation and viewpoint will make a difference.
Twitter rules... You don't respond, because if you do you amplify the story.
Yes, CMT was correct in banishing the video. But the endless pile-on thereafter has only flagged the flame of racism as opposed to waking up America to the despicable viewpoints of Aldean and his minions.
This is what the left wing doesn't understand. You end up pouring gasoline on the story and in the end it hurts you.
After all, truth is fungible.
"Rolling Stone" reported that some of the protest images in "Try That in a Small Town" were actually shot in Canada. Aldean doesn't care about truth, it's all image. He wants to cement his bond with the ignorant and racist, truth has nothing to do with it.
As for small town values...
Why is it that rural burgs are seen as the true America? As if America hasn't progressed in a hundred years, if not more. This is another right wing trope. Got to give them credit for forging it though, because not enough people live or have been exposed to small rural towns to combat it!
Man, the right wing is expert on this. The hellholes of the city. According to the right wing if you live in Chicago your life is endangered, it's worse than Ukraine, which we should get out of.
It goes on and on, they've built a platform amplified by Fox News to the point where they want to elect a criminal. Whew! Get your knickers in a twist. Everybody knows that Trump is a delusional, dumb narcissist, but he's convinced these same Aldean nitwits that he's standing up for them. Aldean is standing up for no one but himself.
Meanwhile, Aldean didn't even write the damn song. Because that's not his talent. The words of cynical others are sung by this doofus, he's responsible for amplifying something he can't even articulate in the first place. But why did these "writers" write this. This is not Neil Young writing from the heart, or even Jason Isbell. This is cynical men, and they're all men, no woman would write this tripe. They're writing for a market. They're fanning the flames of racism.
Meanwhile, all this hogwash about Black Lives Matter. Whenever you bring anything up to the right it's Hillary's e-mails, or Black Lives Matter, it's false equivalence on parade. Meanwhile, did you see that New York City just agreed to pay $13 million to 2020 BLM protesters? Maybe the problem is with the police, ever think of that?
Man this country has changed. Used to be people were suspicious of the police, that was the sixties mantra, amplified by Rodney King. Yes, thinking people realized that too often the police were a gang, a rogue gang, your enemy as opposed to your friend.
But then came the Iran crisis. And 9/11. And suddenly we're all up the rear end of the police, they're gods.
As for Defund the Police... Only the left could come up with such a bad moniker. There's a problem. We all know we need police. But can we at least try and address the ills as opposed to make it a pro or con vision?
Believe me, when you want the police they oftentimes don't come. And when they do they've got a hair-trigger, they don't want to die. But you blindly defend them, ignorance on parade.
And as the right wing country singers double-down on their heinous values, the rest of the "artists" are silent, afraid of pissing off some potential fan. But Jason Aldean has proven that having a position actually advantages your career, it bonds fans to you, they want something to root for, they just don't want bland platitudes. This is how hip-hop killed rock. Rock became safe, was no longer focused on the truth, and it was eclipsed. And in case you didn't know, a lot of the heavier metal/Active Rock music is performed and loved by the right wing. That is the rock of today. Scratch these guys, they're all right wing. Well, not all. But many believe in the police and gun ownership and under your very eyes, the landscape has changed. These are not the guys I want carrying the flag of rock.
Somehow it's fine to have an identity if you're right wing, but if you're left wing, you must be silent.
As for Aldean... He is laughing all the way to the bank. Do you know how hard it is to get this amount of attention today? Nearly impossible. Now everybody, or at least a hell of a lot more than before, knows his name. He's a hero to his constituents. As for Aldean and his fans saying he was canceled, this is one of the best, if not the best thing to happen to him in his career. I mean come on, when they made this video they didn't think it would blow up and cause controversy? Of course they did! That was the goal! Meanwhile, the rest of the "artists" are dancing geeks or complaining about what some other "artist" said about them or dealing dope and going to jail. That's another strange thing, we lionize these rappers who shoot others and do drugs. Talk about a sick society. Then again, we can't address the problems of the Black man because it's been almost two hundred years since slavery and they should pull themselves up by their bootstraps, like the rest of society. We're color blind, don't you know? Doesn't this video illustrate this? STFU and be beholden to the billionaires, the upper class, they know better.
And then we've got RFJ, Jr. An antisemitic conspiracy spreading lunatic who is seen as an alternative to Biden. First and foremost, he's being pushed by cynical right wing operatives, but how come nobody on the left can see Biden is flawed? Nobody wants him to run other than himself and some out of touch left wing operatives.
But we've got to play it safe. Just like the Democratic musicians. You don't want to make a stand, risk blowback. I mean how can you win if you never go on the offensive? We need a rebirth on the left to combat the recalcitrance of the right, which wants no change. We've got to give people options as opposed to just pointing fingers at the bad behavior of people who aren't listening anyway.
Morgan Wallen was not hurt by the n-word controversy. He's the biggest act in recorded music, period. And unlike the classic rock acts, he's not coasting on the past, it's all new music, mostly derived from classic rock if you think about it. How come he can do this but no one on the left can?
In other words, you might hate Wallen based on the n-word controversy, but chances are you've never heard his music and his fans don't care whatsoever, they're happy, and Wallen is going straight to the bank.
If we want to change America people must vote.
Then again, Donald Trump says your vote doesn't count. Put this guy in jail. Poor people pay consequences, rich people hire expensive attorneys and deny. And it's not like there's not evidence to prove Trump's criminality, and we should continue to prosecute his bad behavior, but it is having very little effect on his voters, just like this Aldean blowback is having very little effect on his fans.
Yes, Aldean is from Macon, not a small town. Yes, Aldean is not struggling in a meth-infested village. Aldean is not reporting his truth, not whatsoever. But he's got you amplifying his vision, what a joke.
You cannot convince these people they're wrong. Please stop trying, you're only emboldening them.
Meanwhile, all of you out there claiming to be socially liberal and financially conservative.... That makes you a Republican. Period. Don't deny it. If you're financially conservative that means you don't believe in a healthy safety net, you don't believe in more money for the IRS, you only believe in your own pocketbook. Everything takes money, and if you think you can run the government better why don't you get involved instead of complaining. The fix is not to starve the beast, even though this is the right wing mantra.
The left is operating on an old playbook, as if the internet didn't exist. And when someone on their side stands up and fights for right, like AOC, they're isolated. AOC would be a hero to the right if she was on their side, why are she and her brethren anathema to the left?
That's the story here, not that some redneck geek crossed over the line. Jason Aldean and his fans will be fine. They've won, complaining that they've lost all the time.
The song was on an album in the marketplace for months. No one even cared about the video until CMT took it down. Meaning if everybody on the left didn't get pissed-off this song would have faded away and not radiated. But now it's a cause celeb.
Don't be knee-jerk, think about this. Stop amplifying heinous behavior. You're only emboldening believers. If you don't talk about it, it doesn't exist. Now people know more about Jason Aldean than they do about Biden and his economic policies, something the left has been trying to amplify for weeks under the label "Bidenomics." Once again, the left has lost the battle. Will it lose the war? Yes, if it continues to turn nothingburgers into conflagrations.
I know this, doesn't anybody in D.C? Doesn't anybody on the left with a viewpoint?
Looks like no.
The left wing fans are hungering for a leader who speaks the truth. But all we've got is a tired old man, who can believe in that?
You want us to have hope? Then give us someone to believe in.
The right has this in spades, on the left? CRICKETS!
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