| Muse – Uprising Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think all our political biases are going to affect our interpretation of a political song. I'm slightly left-of-centre so disagree that this is anything to do with the Obama adminsitration, and would point out as evidence that when Glenn Beck started claiming that the song expresses support for his view, the band asked him to stop playing it and dissociated themselves from those opinions. Most Europeans aren't afraid of the word "socialism" or the idea of government running or at least regulating parts of the private sector where there isn't perfect competition, and don't consider the government to be dead set against their interests like so many Americans do. Universal healthcare is accepted by all civilised nations and has broad support: who are the fat cats, the 50%+ who want health costs reduced and shared, or the shareholders of medical insurance companies who want to go on raising premiums, cutting coverage, and taking bigger profits while people die of their conditions? The "fat cats" probably more likely refers to (to pick a couple): - Self interested politicians manifested in America by demands for pork-barrel spending which does benefit an individual congressman's area but probably not the best use of taxpayers money, and who sell their votes in return for campaign contributions. - Bankers (not sure if the song was written before the banking crisis started). The crisis was caused by a system which encouraged greed by bankers, rewarding them for lend money to dodgier and dodgier borrowers regardless of the risks, knowing that ultimately it's not their money they're gambling. |
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