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Thread #8470   Message #53331
Posted By: Jon Bartlett
11-Jan-99 - 01:31 AM
Thread Name: Right Wing Folksongs
Subject: RE: Right Wing Folksongs
Who was it said that Conservatives think the world is dog against dog, but Liberals think it's exactly the opposite?

My own distinction between "us guys" and "them guys" is whether you go along with the old Anarchist (Emma Goldman?)line, "As long as one person is in prison, I am not free". Traditionally, wasn't the distinction was between whether you thought humanity was basically bad (or sinful) or basically good (and thus redeemable), Liberals being this side of the line and Tories the t'other?

Protest songs, by definition surely, oppose those in power, and since the Left has never been "in power" in the west (though there's been several pinkish parties in government), we know of no rightist protest songs. IMHO: Jon the offsider