"Beggars in the House of Plenty" is taken from Generationals' new album, State Dogs: Singles 2017-18, out December 7, 2018.

“Beggars in the House of Plenty” is a song about the perils of oligarchy and the disproportionate power of the wealthiest in our society. The video mocks the tropes and wankery of US Senate hearings which have often been cynically deployed to give a veil of legitimacy to the political theater of a fundamentally undemocratic body— after all, senators representing 16% of the US population can comprise a majority vote in the US Senate*. In fact, senators representing 44% of the US population recently confirmed Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Democracy baby

Since the time we made this video in mid-September, we watched the Kavanaugh hearings reinforce our underlying point: the US Senate is a theater where oligarchs grandstand and fake indignation in service of money and power, and in my view, it should be mocked, ridiculed, disrespected and ultimately abolished. Enjoy the video! - Grant Widmer

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Directed by Ryan Frey & JJ Gerber
Archival Footage Courtesy C-Span
Featuring Duke the dog

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