Opinion: America Is Becoming an Orbisonian Nightmare

It is becoming frighteningly clear to me that America has become the dystopia that modern-day prophet Roy Orbison warned us about. The Big O spent four decades constructing futuristic fables as allegories for the direction he saw our country going through his trademark sunglasses.

Obviously, “A candy-colored clown they call the sandman tiptoes to my room every night” represents the rise of Trump and his overreaching power grabs and surveillance programs. The entire song In Dreams represents a world where people ignore the importance of politics.

Look how Pretty Woman accurately predicted the rise of the #MeToo movement and the dangers of PC culture. A young man, with only good intentions, just wants to speak with a woman to whom he is attracted only to be seen as an aggressor. Sound familiar?

Don’t even get me started on Crying! “When you said, “So long”/Left me standing all alone/Alone and crying, crying/Crying, crying,” is clearly about our technological disconnect and how, even though we speak with one another, we are still alone. That whole song is a Black Mirror episode.

Even as his character Lefty Wilbury (Lefty? Left? Socialism? I mean, c’mon!) he penned the tale Not Alone Any More that warns of a one world government and a Saudi powergrab. I think it also has something to do with Jews but I haven’t quite figured that part out yet.

He even warned us about the midterm elections in California Blue. “Thinking of things that I left far behind,” sounds like Make America Great Again, doesn’t it?!

If we don’t heed this man’s warnings our country will become more than tales from the imagination of a dark, twisted man. I’ll leave you with a quote from the man himself that reminds us all to stay vigilant and never give up, “You wiggle to the left, you wiggle to the right, you do the Ooby Dooby with all your might.”