Not in a small town
If you go to a small town in America, chances are pretty good that you won’t find the ice cream locked up in the grocery store freezer. However, if you wander into one of the grocery stores still open in San Francisco, the Ben and Jerry’s is locked up. This was the startling discovery that the progressive news network CNN made a couple of days ago. Their reporter watched while thieves wandered in, stole goods, and casually sashayed out the door. The reported seemed shocked that many stores in the city have products protected like they were in a vault. Food and other goods under lock and key is not confined to just one of America’s big cities.
Every major city in the Nation is experiencing an unprecedented wave of theft on a scale unseen in history. Why? Somehow a crew of elected, progressive democratic mayors and district attorneys have risen to leadership positions in these troubled metropolises. These clueless, well-intentioned politicians believe that for too long a certain segment of the population has been oppressed and poorly treated because of police abuse, unfair bail requirements and severe laws punishing shoplifting and theft. Enforcement of current appropriate laws have been ignored, weakened, or liberally revised. Insane.
As a result of all the lawless mayhem that has become a staple of the nightly national and local broadcast news, Country music superstar, Jason Aldean’s latest song is “Try that in a Small Town”. It was released in May. The hysterical kerfuffle generated recently is a result of the video that played on cable CMT (Country Music Television). The footage prompted the leftist, cancel culture loons to go nuts, claiming it was a racist song because the footage had showed crowds rioting and damaging property during the pandemic. Evidently one of the scenes showed Jason singing in front of a courthouse in Tennessee where a mob lynched a black man in 1927. That same courthouse has been used as a backdrop for Christmas specials and Hallmark movies. Will Hallmark get the Bud Light treatment? Doubtful. CMT banned the Aldean video and now it is getting the Bud Light backlash.
The song doesn’t promote violence or racism as some have suggested. It is simply conveying a point of view that many Americans share against the obvious violence and crime that has been seen in this country in recent years. The following lyric sample points out that this lawless, disrespectful behavior would not be tolerated by many people in many places, especially small towns across the United States. The song is number one on the country charts.
“Sucker punch somebody on a sidewalk
Carjack an old lady at a red light
Pull a gun on the owner of a liquor store
Ya think it's cool, well, act a fool if ya like
Cuss out a cop, spit in his face
Stomp on the flag and light it up
Yeah, ya think you're tough.
Well, try that in a small town
See how far ya make it down the road
Around here, we take care of our own
You cross that line, it won't take long
For you to find out, I recommend you don't
Try that in a small town.”
Small town Americans have got each other’s back. The retail crime epidemic that ravages the democrat run big cities simply wouldn’t be tolerated at all. Even mid-sized cities that are run by Republicans with well supported police forces that enforce strict adherence to the law, there is no exception for criminal mayhem. These police forces are aided by non-progressive district attorneys and the ice cream isn’t locked up as a result. There is no rational reason for this chaos to continue in big cities. Allowing a small minority to break the law and operate outside societal norms is a death sentence for America. It has to end.
Unfortunately, the madness will not end unless the progressive media, the oblivious politicians and the elite swells living in their guarded enclaves lead the charge to reinstate law and order. There is no equity or equality for citizens who find themselves afraid to ride the subway, shop locally or hang out in a park when criminals are running rampant.
At a recent concert in Cincinnati Aldean, performed the song. Introducing the song, he addressed his antagonists. "I feel like everybody’s entitled to their opinion. You can think something all you want to — that doesn’t mean it’s true, right? What I am is a proud American, I’m proud to be from here. I love our country. I want to see it restored to what it once was before all this bullshit started happening to it."
Freedom of expression, that’s what America is all about and in this case, Aldean is spot on.