Presidential election, 2016

[Eric the Green]

(12-19-2016, 07:35 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(12-15-2016, 04:53 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(12-14-2016, 05:52 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(12-11-2016, 04:16 AM)taramarie Wrote: "A strophic ballad, “One Tin Soldier” tells the tale of the materialistic “valley-people” who kill and cheat in search of a rumoured treasure on a mountain. The only treasure, though, is a stone inscribed with “Peace on earth”; ironically, the valley-people, a metaphor for mankind, destroyed this treasure whilst in the pursuit of it. The song ends with a repetition of the chorus which is a common arrangement technique used to engrain a song in the listener’s memory."

Now that is a blue hippie message if I ever saw one.
Look to the external links provided in this link of course.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Original_Caste

It's a hippie era song that's for sure. I associated Eric with the "valley people" mentality. Eric does not represent "Peace on Earth" or the beliefs of the  "mountain people" anymore than myself.

In your mind, Classic, I represent folks who are trying to "steal" your tax money and your guns by using the government against you. I get that.

Using me as your example of the valley people misses the point. You brought up the song claiming that "mountain people" are typical of red, conservative "heartland America" types like yourself. But Hippie Democrats are the opposite of the valley people in the song, and are characteristic instead of the mountain people who wrote and sang it. And you admit they are the hippies. No matter what you think of me personally.

But I have been a peace activist many times since the sixties, so you can say I don't represent peace, because I know what I admire and believe in, and what you believe in, and who fits which role. "Non-profit people," as you called me, are not very interested in profit. You valley people, Classic, are interested in competition for money and profit for yourself and mostly-white folks like you. What conflicts with that priority, like taxes, are what you are fighting. And since the seventies, it has been your Party that has been the war party.

I used you as an example of a valley person because you have far more interest in obtaining other peoples treasure than me. The Hippie Democrats like yourself are more of the opposite today. I'm not a passive minded, peace loving, anti-war, so called mountain person depicted in the song. I excluded myself from being one of them. I've excluded myself as being one of you a long time ago. I associate sayings like Peace of Earth with Jesus and religious beliefs primarily associated with Christianity.

That's right; that's just what I said. You are hooked on the false ideology that blames poor people for your own troubles. I am coming for your tax money and your guns, you believe, because I support welfare, food stamps and government programs in general. This meme is by far the most dangerous thing in America today. It justifies not only racism and inequality, but shutting down the government we so desperately need to make progress on everything from protecting the environment to better wages and working conditions. It is you valley people who want to keep America enslaved to poverty, inequality and environmental destruction, all just to protect your belief that liberals want to steal from you.

The hippies and the voices like those in the song are the true Christians today, and they would be with us, and not with you.