Stop ruining good music for me, you bastards!

Rockin' the Right - The 50 greatest conservative rock songs. By John J. Miller (via erudito)

Ahunh. Right. I see. Let's have a look at those songs, and the reasons for why they are so Right Wing, or Conservative, as obviously in the author's mind there is no difference.

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Well. Wasn't that informative. We seem to have a pattern here.

• The Cold War must be remembered. Mainly, I suspect, because We (that is, Conservative USians) Won!
  
• Abortion is Evil and Wrong. Always and forever. No matter what the circumstances. (Did somebody say incest? or Rape? Sorry, girls, not good enough.)
  
• Welfare is Wrong. Poor people deserve to be poor.
  
• Communists are Evil. Corollary: Liberals are Communists.
  
• Environmentalists are Liberals. Therefore anyone concerned about the environment is also, by definition, a Communist.
  
• Marriage is eternally Good, and Divorce by simple extension eternally Bad. Even if he beats you. (Oh, and except if you love someone who shares genital configurations with you.)
  
• Taxes are Evil. Government is Evil... except,
  
• Obeying Laws is Good. Except when the Laws are Bad. But there can be no exceptions from abiding by Laws. Except when... umm... when Democrats and Liberals and other Communists make those Laws. Except when we agree with them... umm, OK, how's this: We can break the laws we don't like with impugnity, but if you break the laws we do like, we'll fucking kill you. How's that sound?
  
• Everyone should have a gun, so they can kill people who wrong them. But if you murder, then you've broken the Law, see above.
  
• Rebellion is pointless, except when it's Stupid, except when it's Evil, except when it's rebellion against Democrats, Liberals, and other Communists. The only good Revolutionaries are the ones who realised the error of their ways and started voting Republican.

Basically, there seems to be a huge mélange here of Social Liberals (Do what you like, the Government shouldn't interfere), Social Conservatives (Society should change back to what it was like in my childhood, and the Government should force it to do so), Economic Liberals (The government should not interfere with money in any way), and Economic Neo-liberals (The Government should intervene in money flow to help rich people get more because they deserve it, and poor people get less, because they'd only waste it on food crack cocaine).

The only common factor is negative: they are united by a distrust, and/or hatred of (US-style) Liberals, (US-style) Democrats, Blue States, Conservationists, intellectualism, social conscience, and The Left in general, even if there is no clear idea of what 'The Left' is, besides being all the things good Christian red-blooded Americans should hate.

I'm so glad that's cleared up.