>> It always amazes me when someone describes "Born in the USA" as a patriotic song. My response is "Have you READ the lyric?"
Sad lyric. True that people appear only ever to hear the chorus line and holler it out as an anthem.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
