Too much: never enough.
There simply is no stopping point or ideological boundary line for the left. There’s no point where the general liberal consensus says, “OK, we’ve arrived at our destination. Hallelujah, we’re here! We’re now liberal enough!” Just when you think they’ve finally reached the point of maximum possible craziness, they march on.
For this reason, I foresee that many more liberal icons will be destroyed in the future, simply because at some point in their lives, they made the mistake of thinking, “The here-and-now is pretty much where we’ll stay. The here-and-now is the end point of our liberal ideology. The actions or comments that are appropriate and safe today will always be appropriate and safe.” Nope. The leftward drift will continue ad infinitum, such that acts that seem OK and reasonable today will soon be viewed as evidence of some unpardonable sin that is treasonous to the cause.
Bernie Sanders is not the left’s political end point, either. He may seem extreme today, but in the not too distant future, we’ll look back at Bernie with nostalgia for how quaintly midstream he was.
What, you mean the way opposition to gay “marriage” went from being a perfectly reasonable, near-unanimous sentiment to unalloyed Nazi genocide in about, ohhh, twenty minutes or so?
Quoth moi, from one my very own song lyrics: A hundred miles an hour/Ain’t no brakes. To wit:
I didn’t know I was writing about “liberalism” when I came up with that one, I promise I didn’t. And yet it works just the same, in this case anyway.
But see (just to meander a bit further afield here), that’s the magic of songwriting: one’s audience can individually glean many different meanings, including contradictory ones, from the self-same set of words. And they will, to. Shoot, if I had a nickel for every time some female walked up to me after a show or some other place to sassily proclaim “You wrote that one about ME, didn’t you? I KNOW you did!!” I’d be…well, I’d be something other than a failed musician, at the very least.
Never mattered a bit whether I actually knew the dame or not, seemed like. She would always know, of a rock-solid certainty, that SHE was the one I’d had in mind throughout the wearing struggle of the creative process—humbly begging the favor of The Muse via downing shots of whiskey and staring endlessly at a blank sheet of paper—when all I had really been doing was just trying to cobble something together that at least rhymed half-decently and wasn’t too embarrassingly trite, nonsensical, or just plain goddamned stupid to be performed onstage night after night and/or distributed internationally on thousands of CDs.
But hey, what the hell do I know, right?
Like the tune. Long time listener, first time caller.
I did not realize that your band does rockabilly. Your sound is very much like Commander Cody, and that my friend, is about as good as it gets. And what’s this nonsense about a ‘failed’ band leader? If you made a living at it, even just a part-time living, then you were not a failure. Not by any stretch.
And the ladies who were sure you wrote the song specifically for and about them? The proper answer to that question is, “Why yes. Yes I did.”
Heh. You couldn’t be righter, George. Don’t know why that approach didn’t occur to me earlier. Probably woulda made my life a lot easier, I bet.