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Thread #158936 Message #3764109
Posted By: akenaton
09-Jan-16 - 06:58 PM
Thread Name: Folk Singers who are Politically Conservative
Subject: RE: Folk Singers who are Politically Conservative
Agreed Sanity!.....getting back to the thread the old traditionals the small farmers, the tinkers, the foot soldiers, the reivers, the rovin' journeymen the horsemen, the ploughmen the matriarchs ......they were all conservatives, they all believed in god....not always the same one, but god just the same. They believed in the traditional values of personal responsibility and independence.
They sang real folk music, about pride in their work and in themselves men and women, fathers mothers the old and the young, they all had a place in the great scheme of thing.
To ask about political conservatism is meaningless, politics had no effect on these people .....only pride and survival.