{"id":4384,"date":"2023-07-22T22:48:20","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T22:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=4384"},"modified":"2023-07-22T22:57:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T22:57:09","slug":"jason-aldean-review-praising-the-try-that-in-a-small-town-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=4384","title":{"rendered":"Jason Aldean Review: Praising the \u2018Try That in a Small Town\u2019 Song"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/jason-aldean-review-try-that-in-a-small-town-song\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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This is a review in defense of Jason Aldean\u2019s song and small towns everywhere. You won\u2019t see these views on many liberal media sites, as the corporate media have rushed in unison to condemn and mischaracterize Aldean\u2019s song.<\/p>\n

As a news site, we have found ourselves constantly at odds with the corporate media over a growing number of big cultural moments tying into conservative views. While most of the elite media leapt in unison to condemn and mischaracterize them, we also gave a positive review<\/a> to Matt Walsh\u2019s documentary and to the film<\/a>, \u201cSound of Freedom,\u201d which had absolutely nothing to do QAnon.<\/p>\n

Similarly, Aldean\u2019s song has absolutely nothing to do with lynching, despite the elite media smears to the contrary. What is interesting is how hard the liberal, elite media have pushed back against these cultural moments. Meanwhile, they glorify or ignore rappers who use racial slurs and sing about shooting cops and raping women, while touting a criminal lifestyle.<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t have a problem with that type of creative expression. But a song about stopping crime is somehow over the line.<\/p>\n

Something big is going on \u2013 people are finally pushing back \u2013 which has its roots in Elon Musk creating a free-speech space where people can organize and get the word out. This threatens the left, whether it\u2019s a Bud Lite boycott or Tucker Carlson still being able to have a show or Jason Aldean reminding people that rioting and liquor store robberies wouldn\u2019t fly in a small town.<\/p>\n

The left\u2019s instinct is censorship. Liberal elites have recently expressed smug, arrogant views of small-town America, from Hillary\u2019s basket of deplorables to Obama\u2019s people clinging to their religion and guns. The deplorables are speaking back.<\/p>\n

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In the past 24 hours I have been accused of releasing a pro-lynching song (a song that has been out since May) and was subject to the comparison that I (direct quote) was not too pleased with the nationwide BLM protests. These references are not only meritless, but dangerous.\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2014 Jason Aldean (@Jason_Aldean) July 18, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Check out Aldean\u2019s song lyrics<\/a> for yourself. They do not mention race. They do not mention lynchings. He does sing against carjacking old ladies, pulling guns on liquor store owners, and spitting in the faces of cops. Why are the elite media assuming he\u2019s referring to blacks? Why are they positioning against being against those things?<\/p>\n

Sucker punch somebody on a sidewalk
\nCarjack an old lady at a red light
\nPull a gun on the owner of a liquor store
\nYa think it\u2019s cool, well, act a fool if ya like
\nCuss out a cop, spit in his face
\nStomp on the flag and light it up
\nYeah, ya think you\u2019re tough<\/em><\/p>\n

What Aldean\u2019s song and video do condemn is a very recent phenomenon in which anarchy has been enabled, criminals have been turned into victims, cops have been turned into villains, and burning and looting cities (or blatant smash-and-grabs) are enabled by liberal DAs, radical politicians, and a complicit media.<\/p>\n

Aldean\u2019s song glorifies modern small-town values where social order exists and right from wrong is understood. We grew up in small towns in Wisconsin, Kewaskum and Ladysmith. They\u2019re places where people still respect cops, they send their kids to the military, and you can leave your car running to go into the store and it\u2019s still there when you come back. They\u2019re places where people wave when they pass you on the road in their cars, where they go to church on Sundays, and where they have a dairy farmer work ethic. This is the kind of small town Jason Aldean means.<\/p>\n

What Jason Aldean\u2019s song is saying is that the anarchy and lawlessness we\u2019ve been witnessing in big cities in recent years would simply not be allowed in a small town. Why? Because there\u2019s social order. Because there\u2019s an internal cohesion and value system that would prevent it. And, if necessary, because the police will enforce the law. Yes, if necessary, people will also defend their own property and businesses.<\/p>\n

We saw the latter occur in the relatively small-town of Kenosha, Wisconsin, during the riots, where armed homeowners barricaded and guarded their subdivisions as the police let Kenosha\u2019s downtown burn. We spoke to the owner of a used-car lot who, while armed, warded off arsonists<\/a> who were headed toward his business. He preferred to leave it to law enforcement, but they were nowhere to be found; they had a strategy of not protecting property that night. This is the kind of action that Aldean\u2019s song speaks of, not lynching.<\/p>\n

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