Dave Morrison used to be a liberal. He now is one of two men who do videos on a YouTube channel, Blue Collar Logic.
He is not as eloquent as Tucker Carlson, but he does not need to be. He is targeting a different audience.
There are no "ums" and "uhs" in his monologues.
This one is terrific. It's a comparison of America in the lyrics of Bruce Springsteen (net worth: $500 million) vs. the late Chuck Berry. He uses two icons of music's pop culture from two eras to make his point. Berry celebrated America as a land of opportunity. Springsteen doesn't.
He does not make this point: the eras were very different. I wish he had. It seems to me that this is the heart of the matter, not just the personal attitudes of the two stars. But he nails Springsteen good and hard.
Chuck transformed rock and roll guitar with Maybelline in 1955. It blew me away at age 13, along with most of my peers. I still remember those opening words:
Maybelline, why can't you be true?
O Maybelline, why can't you be true?
You done started doin'
The things you used to do.
What was this all about? This:
As I was a-motivatin' over the hill,
I saw Maybelline in a Coup de Ville.
Cadillac rollin' on the open road.
Nothin' outrun my V-8 Fode.
Cadillac doin' about ninety-five.
We was bumper to bumper,
Rollin' side by side.
That really didn't help clarify things. But what did that matter? An entire generation did not care: the pre-boomers. It sold a million records at 89 cents, plus tax -- in today's money, $8.71, plus tax. (Digital music has been a deflationary force for three generations.)
With this song, he began a guitar revolution. The Beatles, the Rolling Stones -- they all learned from Chuck.
It was a different era in 1955. What the world has gained in sophistication, it has paid for with a loss of hope.
From 1995:
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