"Alas, it seems the Glueman Group has won here"

Never came to win anything, just provoke debate. The win/lose, triumphalism/defeat thing is far too deeply rooted in the folk revival as it is. It seems self-evident to me that the entirety of the folk process, even The Folk process if you buy into such stuff, cannot be fully accounted for in the practices of folk clubs.

I'm perfectly happy for people to sing historic songs to their hearts content so long as they don't annexe the real world as it exists today with their rhetorical bouquets.