[frank ballenger]

Others have asked this and I have no answer.

If the protest and leftist themes were prevalent in the folk songs why can’t there be songs celebrating American values, freedoms and achievements? M

Maybe the Christian youth songs (never popular-—such as Up With People) or a few country songs (God Bless the USA
Song by Lee Greenwood and the new one being suppressed).

[nickcarraway]

The Temptations - Ball Of Confusion (Live)

Ball of Confusion sounds mostly conservative.

[Fiji Hill]

If the protest and leftist themes were prevalent in the folk songs why can’t there be songs celebrating American values, freedoms and achievements?

Here are a few. I only wish they were as well-known and popular as the leftist anthems.

• The Red We Want Is the Red We've Got (In the Old Red, White & Blue)--Eddie Howard (1950)
  The right red, not the wrong red. A brave red, not a slave red!

• Old Glory--Stuart Hamblen (1950)

• The Voice of Free Amereica--Jimmie Osborne (1951)

• I'm No Communist!--Lulu Belle & Scotty (1952)

• The Fiery Bear--Tex Ritter (1950)

• No, No, Joe--Luke the Drifter (Hank Williams) (1950)

• Advice to Joe--Roy Acuff (1951)

• God, Please Protect America--The Sunshine Boys Quartet (1951)

• They Locked God Outside the Iron Curtain--Little Jimmy Dickens (1952)

• Mr. Stalin, You're Eating too High on the Hog--Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith & His Crackerjacks (1950)

• When They Drop the Atomic Bomb--Jackie Doll & His Pickled Peppers (1951)

• Stalin Kicked the Bucket--Ray Anderson (1953)

• The Iron Curtain Has Parted--Don Windle (1953)

• The Red Deck of Cards--Red River Dave (1954)

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

So effective are these awful songs thst we are all supremicist racists now, I mean the progressives certainly are, and fascist to boot.

[Organic Panic]

Bunch of commies for the most part. Spoiled rich commies who never heard the word “no” and never wanted for anything.

Of course no as applicants to the black writers of the day who actually were oppressed and lynched by the democrat party structural racism.

[nopardons]

The Revolutionary War song, YANKEE DOODLE was a spit in the eye towards the Brits/Brit soldiers and a sort of "protest song".

Though not "protests songs" as such, but George M. Cohan wrote and made VERY popular, many patriotic songs, in his Broadway shows: YOU'RE A GRAND OLD FLAG and OVER THERE, to name but two of his works.

Then Kate Smith made GOD BLESS AMERICA almost another kind of national anthem. And that was NEVER a "folk song"!