« Reply #6708 on: Mon, 02 April 2018, 18:54:49 »
How did you like it? What was your favorite part?
At work I mentioned that I was going, and a couple of the guys asked who would be there. I realized that there was pretty much nobody in the whole lineup that they had even heard of, except perhaps Medeski, Martin, and Wood. The festival pretty much revolves around jazz, modern classical, and avant-garde music, although there are always "folk-esque" people there like Rhiannon Giddens, Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn. In years past there was a good deal more rock but that is fading away.
The high points for me were probably Anoushka Shankar's quartet, Julia Wolfe's "Anthracite Fields", and solo performances by Johnny Gandelsman (violin) and Evan Parker (soprano saxophone) in a small cathedral. There is always far more available than is possible to see.
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How the hell or why did you become a DEMO-crat?” He asked.
“Long story, but it started with Nixon, then I was educated and know history as the Republicans are all about getting power to exploit it to their benefit, while Democratic politicians, for the most part, are for distributing things more equitably. I’ll finish with the overwhelming sociological and psychological evidence in studies that identify that conservatives see the world through inherent inequity where the elite or those who seek to be elite are superior to the commoners, and it is they who should lead. At the same time, liberals look at the world as inequality and seek to make the world more equitable, and that all should be represented. Ultimately, conservatives trust those in authority, while liberals inherently distrust those in authority to take advantage for themselves or their constituency.”
He looks up and says, “No one ever explained that to me, and then asks, “If **** Cheney thinks that Trump is that bad, then it's not about DEMO-crats vs Republicans, is it.”
I resume walking and then say, “Hey, you got it; it's the Democratic and old Republican parties versus Trumpism, which is American fascism aided by the Russians.”
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