When you’re surrounded only by white people in their sixties and seventies, you can almost imagine that the world you associate with “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” is still attainable. For this audience, the song is no longer a salve for those disillusioned by the dawn of Nixon but a taunt to liberals who want to welcome Mexicans into our country and make health insurance accessible to those who can’t afford it. No, you really can’t get what you want, liberal snowflakes. Mick Jagger told us so.
