"When any political group ones you like, ones you dont like use the power of music to dominate the media and bring about political change it hurts folk music in general."

If you could back that up with evidence there would be something to discuss, unfortunately you just keep sharing your opinion.

You fail to see that Seeger and the Smothers were NOT excluding the views of others. If you, as everyone else seems to have realized, that the Smother's Brothers and Seeger WERE offering an alternate view at a time when the media was highly slanted toward the right.

You keep insisting that folk music should share both sides. It does. You only need to open your ears and evolve beyond the cocoon you've wrapped yourself in.