Sure as some car dealer will run an ad this weekend saying "We're declaring our independence...from high prices!" radio stations everywhere will play Born in the USA as a patriotic anthem. And while the song is ultimately very patriotic, it is not in the sense most people think.
It's worth remembering each time you hear it that this a searing portrait of the shitty treatment America gave it's Vietnam vets after sending them off to fight in a pointless war. Let's hope we don't allow history to repeat itself this time.
Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I'm ten years down the road
Nowhere to run, ain't got nowhere to go
I'm a long gone Daddy in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
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