Fortunately, this song keeps coming back to me, just when I have forgotten about it. It is as true today as it was when Jackson Browne wrote and performed it. Needless to say, it did not get much, if any, airtime back then in the height of the RayGun era. It could use some now, and we could use some reminding, too.
This is one of the reasons we old timers keep harping on shit; this is a quarter of a century plus old, and it was old news then. And you wonder why it becomes harder and harder to have any faith in America at all.
Here's how someone thought this was relevant ten years ago. The message is ageless; only the politicians change.