Hip to the Deception

 Song 536: This week the playlist applauds Won't Get Fooled Again by The Who, written by Pete Townshend, and you can find a YouTube video of it by clicking on the title. Election week seems like an appropriate time to add this cut to the list. When it first came along in the summer of 1971, I liked the sound of it, as it seemed to amplify my belief that My Generation (song 474) had gotten hip to the political games which had given us the Vietnam War and other ridiculous BS, and we would not fall for it again. Then, the following year, as Rolling Stone described it, in a contest between Jekyll and Hyde, the country went apesh*t for Hyde. Over the decades, I've watched US politics grow more corrupt and less worker-friendly, as the rich continue to get richer and average citizens get screwed, while folks like Speaker Pelosi accrue a 9-figure net worth, partly as a reward for rigging the rules against genuine progressives like Bernie Sanders who support improvements for the lower 90 percent. The change, it had to come - we knew it all along, but in terms of the political landscape, the world looks just the same today (if not worse). Knowing the real story of the two evils facing off this week, I know what to expect (a lousy outcome either way), so I definitely Won't Get Fooled Again by the 2020 scam.