Randy Newman’s take on this election over 40 years ago

Randy Newman is on my Pandora shuffle.  He writes both great and funny songs.  Today Mr. President Have Pity on the Working Man came up.  He recorded this song over 40 years ago.  The YouTube video is pointed at Obama.  Lord knows what they’ll do with Trump.

We have elected an oligarch.  He believes the rich should have power and respect because of their money.  I don’t think he’s as stupid as his deeds.  Nobody could be.  He’s not used to hearing negative feedback from people that have less money than him.

While everybody around me was yelling about how stupid he was I thought that rednecks would come out of their bunkers in the woods to vote for him.  I don’t think he had ever worn a gimme cap before even on the golf course.

I think he was elected because he was spouting ugly thoughts that a lot of off-camera Americans feel deep down where they’ve been trained to not mention or act on.  We are seeing incidents of people letting racist and sexist urges come to surface because one of their own is now in power.

I don’t think that the South Park guys thought that Trump was going to win when they did the episode about the Canadians coming to America because they had elected a Trump-like prime minister.  At least I hope not.

People with ultra-conservative views are going to let them fly.  This will be good because the public have all sorts of recording devices everywhere to call them on their attitudes when they are out of office.  Working in the Trump White House for the entire term will not be looked upon favorably.  Getting fired will be good; resigning will be better.

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