country songs used to be like "it's funny how i'm drinking myself to death here" and "funny how i work here and always fall in love with guys like him" and now they're all "i own a $95,000 truck" and "i support the US giving material, intelligence and logistical support for the liquidation of gaza"
Post 9/11, during the hyper patriotism of the time, the dickheads who run Nashville used that as an opportunity to purge all the lefties out of mainstream country. By the time the Dixie Chicks were getting run out of town for opposing the Iraq war, country was lost to the right wing.
some of the oldheads have life in them yet (mostly thinking of Willie here), and there's always underground country and countryish folk music to fill the common sense void left by rightwing bro country
