Rally for the Farmers! Willie Nelson and the late 20th century populist movement

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Musical Interlude: Armageddon Über Alles
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    Baconheimer

    I am Reverend Pat Robertson
    Vote for me to forgive your sins
    God says I shall be president
    1st amendment will soon go away
    I will be your messiah today
    Now I command all of you
    Now your gonna pray in school
    I'll make sure they're Christian too

    Armageddon über alles
    Armageddon über alles
    Über alles Armageddon
    Über alles Armageddon

    Theocrats will control you
    Still you think it’s biblical
    Crusades in the holy land
    Don’t forget to nuke Kazakhstan
    Close your eyes can’t happen here
    The KKK is coming near
    Slavery won’t come back you say?
    Bow to me or you will pay!
    Bow to me or you will pay!

    Armageddon über alles
    Armageddon über alles
    Über alles Armageddon
    Über alles Armageddon

    Now it is 1994
    Knock knock at your mosque door
    It’s the CIA secret police
    You’re a terrorist, so is your niece
    You’ll go quietly to conversion camp
    They’ll shoot you dead, make you a man
    Don’t you worry it’s for a reason
    Trigger the end times or it’s treason
    Die in a Liberian prison camp
    Or the holocaust of Jerusalem

    Wiping out civilization
    Wiping out civilization
    Punish you for homosexual cravings

    Armageddon über alles
    Armageddon über alles
    Über alles Armageddon
    Über alles Armageddon

    - Armageddon Über Alles as performed by Jello Biafra and R.F. O'Rourke, late 1996

    Written by @Oppo
     
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    Gerbbro

    My God, this election would be absolute hell for the Dead Kennedys. I could totally see them playing both this and California Uber Alles back to back.
     
    Baconheimer

    Baconheimer

    Gerbbro said:
    My God, this election would be absolute hell for the Dead Kennedys. I could totally see them playing both this and California Uber Alles back to back.
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    Well them and the entire punk scene, which has a few people that were not involved IOTL.

    I also imagine they'd have something to say about Walter Mondale. Something tells me Jello Biafra wouldn't like the idea of a former Vice President coming back and taking the nomination when Willie Nelson could have had it instead.
     

    Admiral Halsey

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    Baconheimer said:
    Well them and the entire punk scene, which has a few people that were not involved IOTL.

    I also imagine they'd have something to say about Walter Mondale. Something tells me Jello Biafra wouldn't like the idea of a former Vice President coming back and taking the nomination when Willie Nelson could have had it instead.
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    Wouldn't Jello be more ok with Mondale getting it though since Willie himself said he didn't want to run again? Then again it is Jello....
     
    Oppo

    Oppo

    I can’t find the exact video, but I remember that Jello really considered Walter Mondale just about as negatively as Reagan (although Diane Feinstein was and still is Jello’s main enemy on the left). He’s probably voting Green as IOTL.
     
    Baconheimer

    Baconheimer

    Admiral Halsey said:
    Wouldn't Jello be more ok with Mondale getting it though since Willie himself said he didn't want to run again? Then again it is Jello....
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    I think Biafra probably thinks Mondale's too establishment for him to back. I could see him voting for Willie Nelson in 1988 and possible 1992, though.

    This all said, the Dead Kennedys (not just Jello Biafra) have more political involvement to look for in the future.
     
    Baconheimer

    Baconheimer

    Roberto El Rey said:
    So are we going to get Indiana Governor/Senator/Congressman Mellencamp?
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    After seeing what Willie Nelson went through in his three campaigns, most of his friends are unwilling to get into elected politics.

    In other countries, however, particularly Ireland, there are some musicians that are planning on seeking office.
     

    glenn67

    It is so ironic that the professional politicians (that abandoned the sinking Democratic ship) are now in charge of RFTF.
     
    Baconheimer

    Baconheimer

    glenn67 said:
    It is so ironic that the professional politicians (that abandoned the sinking Democratic ship) are now in charge of RFTF.
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    Yeah, that's a concern to the more populist wing (people like Traficant, Angus King, Ted Kaczynski, and even Jello Biafra), but Mondale is being forced to make concessions to them.
     
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