We could have more capitol letter folk as the type referred to by the person from scottland above but for the manipulation of the market place and political brand that it received.

As a result of political branding folkies are perceived as lefty and when that turns a significant number of people off who are not now perceiving "flower children, lefty, druggy hippies" in a positive light not only the market suffers but folk music at large fails to achieve what it could had the brand not been put in place.

No people are not automotons however if the only political view they hear through folk music is from leftys what else are they going to do. If they wanted to stick with folk music that was their only choice. Cultivation of a wide range of folk politico alternatives would solve this problem and help maintain and develop audience.

We will only create more of a capitol letter folk when we broaden the perception of the community and genre to include diversity and that goes for all the political issues. Don't call it censoring call it diversification.

Conrad