Right wing, left wing, same bird.

Stan Rogers, in "The Idiot", gives a vivid picture of the attitude a young single man might take. He is too proud to go on welfare. Does that make the song "off message" and Rogers a rightist? I don't care. It's a good song and makes me feel I've been there.

And then there's Kipling, the racist, imperialist, & sexist, who was in touch with reality & could put words together. As Orwell remarked many years ago, he is with us yet, while more politically correct people have been forgotten.