Jim. It's not a 'right wing attack'. On my part it is attempt to understand why a composer 'making money' is enough for them to be dismissed out of hand.

What are the pre-20th century examples, or accounts, of working people writing songs that when into oral transmission. Everyone seems to accept that it happened but what is the evidence?

And it is not intended to be personal, it is just that you are the only person in this discussion saying things that people I have known say.