When the whole Oliver Anthony thing happened over a weekend, I urged some caution: Proceed With Caution. Let’s see what happens once the bright lights hit him I suggested…
Let’s see what this guy does when he starts to get those checks rolling in from his music and from Youtube and after They have some time to start working on him. Principled populism evaporates pretty quickly when you buy the new dually pick-up truck. What do we really know about this guy, what he believes on the big questions, what his plans are going forward? We don’t know anything really and that is reason enough to tread carefully.
I got some shit from people who scolded me for being so pessimistic and black-pilled and complained that at least Oliver Anthony was “doing something”. Yeah…
Just like clockwork, Oliver was speaking to Fox News on Saturday: Oliver Anthony says ‘Rich Men’ has ‘touched people globally’: ‘Don’t have to be blue-collar’ and said this at around the 5:15 mark….
We’ve got to go back to the roots of what this country great in the first place which was our sense of community I mean we are the melting pot of the world and that’s what makes us strong, is our diversity.
Diversity is our greatest strength!
I know Oliver is just a simple crooner of songs in the woods but someone apparently didn’t tell him that a lot of things made this country great in the first place but diversity isn’t one of them. Far from being what makes us strong, “diversity” is what is going to end up destroying this country. It’s our greatest weakness right now and it is why we are not exploring the stars.
And the “melting pot”? That is a term coined back in 1909, long after this country was established, by a guy named Israel Zangwill. Here he is.
According to Wikipedia:
Zangwill was born in Whitechapel, London on 21 January 1864, in a family of Jewish immigrants from Lithuania, then part of the Russian Empire. His father, Moses Zangwill, was from what is now Latvia, and his mother, Ellen Hannah Marks Zangwill, was from what is now Poland. He dedicated his life to championing the cause of people he considered oppressed, becoming involved with topics such as Jewish emancipation, Jewish assimilation, territorialism, Zionism, and women’s suffrage.
Zionism and women’s suffrage, two things that have done wonders for the working class of America!
I know it was an off-the-cuff remark but notice how easily he fell back on that. He isn’t some free thinker, he just has a song with a couple of zinger lines that aren’t saying anything that people weren’t already saying for decades. He just happened to hit the right audience and get noticed, totally organically I am sure, and blew up on social media.
If he really believes that diversity is our greatest strength, and I am confident he does, he has no clue what is actually happening to this country and is far from /ourguy/. Maybe he will figure it out, probably not although I hope he does, but at the risk of sounding like I told you so….
I told you so.
Some of us are old enough and wise enough to remember there is a good definition of diversity.
"Diversity as currently defined by the illegal government is evil. It is used to divide us, cancel our culture and demonize our children in schools. Like the misuse of “Democracy”, diversity has been corrupted as a means to destroy a nation instead of its original use to build one."