It was posted some time ago. https://poal.co/s/Music/512054
Used to hear his hilarious on Dr. Demento.
Never realized he was a leftie Democrat.
Even though Lehrer was "a hero of the anti-nuclear, civil rights left" and covered its political issues in many of his songs and, even though he shared the New Left's opposition to the Vietnam War, and advocated for civil rights, he disliked the aesthetics of the counterculture of the 1960s and stopped performing as...
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He had stopped writing satirical songs because the ideas no longer came easily to him. Lehrer's last public performance was in 1972, when he appeared at a campaign rally for the Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern.
Still enjoy his music, though.
He was a college professor, that goes hand in hand with the left. But I also look at that historically and think that what we call the left today and what we called the left then are two radically different things.
What you say is true.
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