“Welcome to the contest to measure our American pride.” As we head into yet another election season, the most vivid element of our political climate is not one candidate or the other, but rather the glaring chasm between them. How did we get so far apart? Andrew Duhon considers one likely culprit of our disunity to be one of the things we all have in common: our gullibility. In a world where sound bites have replaced coffee talk, and loyalty leans to confirmation bias over checking the facts, “Waco Kool Aid,” the new single from Andrew Duhon is born. The song is a wry double-take at the polarization around us and the facts we take to be fact far too soon. In the song, Andrew turns the joke back on the listeners by admitting a lie he’s told in the lyrics themselves, but then doubles down because “the truth is the truth is obsolete.” Waco Kool-Aid works to point out our innate need for validation, we may seem like we’re on opposite ends of the spectrum, but whether sippin’ on the red or the blue shade, “everybody kinda wants the same thing.