The Time Has Come For The People To Take America Back

Porgie, this was beautifully written and echoes what many of us feel, even if we don't necessarily speak to it out loud. I truly fear for our country and our lives, wondering what will happen to future generations, like that of my niece's two young daughters, born in a country that seems recklessly out of control.

It's funny, not in a ha ha kind of a way, but there is a restless in me as I sit here thinking on all of this. We need another MOVEMENT, Americans arm in arm demanding accountability from our elected officials. We need a movement that puts people ahead of profits, restores and honor our nation has lost.

By the way, if those reading this can find the recording of Pete Seager and Arlo Guthrie singing this is our land, you'll have tears in your eyes as you read this if you can listen to that song.

Great sentiment Porgie, but when you sell this to the neocon movement, I'll sing along. I remember Pete, Arlo, and Bob, Joan, Joanie, and Country Joe, and a lot more, but it was a time far far away, in a galaxy near here, but no longer here. Officer Obie has taken over the Republican party, and we're all just placing comments under that proverbial pile of garbage. You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant (except harmony in our politics these days). I give it a ten, good beat, easy to dance to, though.

Porgie, you got a 10!

Folk music and folk songs moved and motivated the nation to stop the war in Vietnam. It's starting to happen again.

In the past 2 weeks, I was at two guitar and folk singing parties, in Los Angeles, CA; one at my home and the other at a friend's house! It was fantastic to hear all the 60's great folk songs. Let's sing the one that everyone loved at those parties:


How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
Yes, 'n' how many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, 'n' how many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they're forever banned?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.

How many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky?
Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.

How many years can a mountain exist
Before it's washed to the sea?
Yes, 'n' how many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free?
Yes, 'n' how many times can a man turn his head,
Pretending he just doesn't see?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind!!!
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Thank you Porgie.

Fred, know that one VERY WELL...............

great article, rated a 10. i couldnt agree with you more

Thanks Vickey.....We really do need to find a way through the discord to a position of uniting for a common goal of making America right again.

Loved this Porgie. Thanks.

Thanks Lori....was listening to some of the old tunes from my actist days, and it woke something us, and this piece was the result of it.

Thanks Lucie.

If we want to take back the government from corporations. A way to do it is with publicly financed federal and state elections. This has already been done for state elections in Arizona and is on the ballot in California.

Thanks Danger....as they say, it is time for a change.

I'm a Bush nut. I like Bush. Sure his dad worked for the CIA but I can let that slide.
LOL. Have a good election and for heavens sake go vote!!!

Charles, I always vote....one here who believes you have no right to complain if you are not willing to get out and vote, make your voice heard where it counts.