Ian BetteridgeMar 10

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In 1979, a punk band from San Francisco recorded a song about the Governor of California. It was a joke, mostly. Jerry Brown was a Democrat, a Buddhist, a man who dated Linda Ronstadt and discussed limits and simplicity at a moment when America was in no mood for either.

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In 1979, a punk band from San Francisco recorded a song about the Governor of California. It was a joke, mostly. Jerry Brown was a Democrat, a Buddhist, a man who dated Linda Ronstadt and discussed limits and simplicity at a moment when America was in no mood for either.

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I'm just not buying this. It's a version of. "Both sides" that doesn't acknowledge that the counterculture (his stand in for the left) never achieves power.

The simple reason for that is, if it ever does, it stops being the counterculture and becomes the culture.

That's theoretically possible, but while bits and pieces get picked up, it has never really happened.

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I think Biafra is joking (in reference to Brown, not so much Reagan). Mitchell is an outside observer regarding Woodstock, though clearly a sympathetic one.

As an artist and activist, she is certainly on the left.

I'll accept the far left & far right have a similar fault line, but in reality, the far right is extremely dangerous & has adversely affected society broadly while the far left, due in part to it's much more limited reach has much more limited negative affects