A campaign song is never a political platform or a documentary or even a reliable indicator of what the candidate will do after the election. It’s marketing puffery, an entertaining form of propaganda. Its intent is to put you in a good mood to vote for a particular candidate, not to inform or educate you. Case in point: When Iraq’s dictator Saddam Hussein ran for re-election in his rigged election of 2002, he cynically chose Whitney Houston’s I Will Always Love You as his official tune.

When not secluded in his Delaware basement during the 2020 campaign, Joe Biden often played We the People from the Staple Singers as he walked onto a stage. The theme of the song was “unity” yet his administration practices precisely the opposite—division, class warfare, groupthink, racially-charged rhetoric and brazen attempts at censorship.

[It’s a fun essay, but it’s basically a rundown on the nonsense of advertising and marketing, just applied to politics. However, Reed links to this video from Tim Hawkins from more than 13 years ago which gives us the essential campaign song these days, especially from the Left. We missed it at the time, but don’t miss it now! — Ed]