I don't hate this song entirely. I do hate that it wasted its potential on some dumb conservative tropes that spoiled the core message. Calling out the ruling class on being the enemy of the working class is spot on. And we need more of that, more artistic recognitions that the culture war is a red herring, and that it is really the rich against the rest of us. And that is how the song starts out.
But then we get into the part about Fudge Rounds, a recycling of the welfare queen trope that pundits like Rush Limbaugh thrust into the public consciousness. And it amounts to blaming the poor, which goes against the entire class war call to arms in the first verse. It is also ignorant, since the food assistance, and all other assistance programs, are really just a way to use the poor to funnel wealth into the pockets of the rich while creating a convenient scapegoat.
And then there is the whole pedo island thing, and while it is impossible to deny Epstein's criminal perversity and its connection to those in power, it just drags the song down and turns off half the possible listeners.
I think this dude has a powerful voice, and we sure could use a cultural movement which united the lower classes into a single front against the common enemy, but he fumbled the ball by catering to conservative memes and alienating the liberal meme people. So really I hate this song for failing to be what it could have been.
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