Saw this on Facebook, and just for old times sake (yeah, I am that old…) I watched the video, and instead of ‘enjoying’ it, for the first time I noticed just how truly angry Joe MacDonald was, and I noticed that the young guys in the audience were sort of ‘enjoying’ it but they really hesitated when he kept insisting that they sing along…took ’em awhile to get into the bouncy, portentous tune…and I thought about that, about the fear that they must have been feeling, about the inevitability of the draft…and it made me cry all over again…for those young boys who all must have known what was to come, and for what was back then my country…
Woodstock was a long time ago, ‘Nam was a long time ago…and at the time, I had no idea that I would wind up in Canada in ’72, getting a bit tired of all the draft dodger jokes directed at me, but trying to be good humored about it, since some of my own California friends were up here, sheltered by this country that at the time, understood…
Now, thinking about all the millennials who cannot find jobs, who are the generation unable to leave home because as adults they must rely on the support of their parents…and I wonder if their new President will find jobs for them elsewhere…in another stupid pointless horrific war..that’s a rich corporatist’s wet dream, because there’s no profits like war profits, and with slave (free) labor to boot, in the form of cannon fodder paid for by the ones who are taxed….
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