"Love Me, I'm a Liberal" (for the 2024 Election) by Ben Grosscup
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- Опубликовано: 24 ноя 2024
- Love Me, I'm a Liberal
Re-written by Ben Grosscup, October 29, 2024
I mourned the Tiananmen martyrs
Whose protests were brutally quelled
And I cheered when Mandela walked freely
After so many years in a cell
But mister Assange still belongs in prison
Those secrets were not his to tell
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
I attend diversity trainings
And I leave feeling so reassured
I love Oprah and Magic and Foreman
It’s great to see blacks become entrepreneurs
But don’t go and vote third party
That’s not the way to be heard
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
I cheered when Kamala was chosen
My faith in the system restored
And I'll never forgive Ralph Nader
For the election he stole from Al Gore
And my neighborhood welcomes all races
Of people with high credit scores
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
Voters need more education
To achieve Democracy’s aims
Our enemies spread memes in their news feeds
Sowing division and national shame
But if you want socialized healthcare
You really must be insane
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
I listen to All Things Considered
I’d consider anyone’s views
You know, I’ve read DiAngelo and Kendi
And I’m probably more woke than you
But when it comes to the arming of Israel
There’s no one who’s more white and blue
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
I vote for the Democratic Party
They’re strengthening NATO command
I support Bono’s benefit concerts
And buy whatever’s endorsed by his brand
We’re gonna make poverty history!
Posting to Facebook, taking a stand
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
Sure once I was young and impulsive
I wore every conceivable pin
I fought for a socialist future,
Which I actually thought we might win
Ah, but I've grown older and wiser
And that's why I'm turning you in
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
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I remember when Phil Ochs sang this song live. He started it off with the definition of a liberal. A liberal is someone who is to the left of center on issues that don't affect him directly, and to the right of center on issues that affect him directly.
I remember him saying that at one of the East Village Cafes in the '60's.
And my neighborhood welcomes all races
Of people with high credit scores.
That's my town right there!
Thank you for highlighting the line I wrote that I'm most proud of writing!
Sounds exactly like Old West Lawrence in Lawrence, KS.
This line also took me out. Funny and brilliant.
@@BenGrosscup "it is a red line" - biden
And sexual orientations with high credit scores as long as they are Doctors, Lawyers, and IMPORTANT PEOPLE you NEED TO HEAR ABOUT! (Not the waiters, Customer Service Representatives, and Hairdresser....we shalln't be associated with that....we left THOSE people behind whenn we graduated the college )
Phil Ochs lives on! Thank you for honoring his inspiring song.
I think this version captures Phil Ochs' original ironic jabs the best of any update I've heard. Well done.
People with high credit scores 😂
Thanks for highlighting this! The full line is
"And my neighborhood welcomes all races
Of people with high credit scores."
In the original song, written in 1965, that line was:
"And I love Puerto Ricans and Negroes
As long as they don't move next door"
Liberalism has changed and along with the shape of racism has also changed.
@BenGrosscup Phil Ochs would have approved!
ppl dont have shoes but you spent 1,000 dollars on halloween decorations
The "turning you in" part seems to be coming true a little fast for my liking.
this was great man! i discovered phil ochs about 2 or 3 years ago and i love his music now and i feel like you really captured the spirit of the song. if only he were alive to hear it
Some comrades and I were recently discussing a 2024 version of this song and here you are. Great stuff.
That truly warms my heart to know you were looking for that and found my song.
“But I’ve gotten older and wiser, and that’s why I’m turning you in,” as people post the number for Immigration Services, and encourage others to call the gov’t on the undocumented relatives of friends who didn’t vote the ‘right’ way……
In your imagination !
@@user-ro8vr6tu2cthere was a guy on the tweet toks I think going viral last week. His name was Angel. I honestly thought it was quite an ironic name considering what he was asking ppl to do
@@user-ro8vr6tu2c Close your eyes all you want, it's happening all the same.
This goes so hard.
The tongue is practically bursting out the cheek.
Its just totally brilliant.
Oh its an adaptation as well
Excellent, 2 songs that are new to me in one.
Thanks for sharing that!!
@@BenGrosscup No worries, I really enjoyed it..
I'm on a student radio show on the weekends, I was going to play it on there unless you've any objections? :)
@@BenGrosscup Kamala isn’t a liberal and you’re politically illiterate asf, lol..
Capitalism is a conservative construct, silly boy..
@@cake_fingers4548 Go ahead! Sorry it took me a while to reply.
I’m glad people are still fighting this war on oppression and fascism 💜
My favorite version of this song by far. Please put this on spotify! I beg 🙏
another anti capitalist folk banger
Yes but still very clever !!!! - as only art can be !!!! :)
Cool it with the antisemitic remarks!
@@monoriada117 What remarks?
An excellent update. Truly, some issues are so persistent they remain with mere new coats of paint fifty years on.
This one is my favorite variation of the song so far lmao. Great work.
A perfect description of Sir Keir Starmer
Thoroughly enjoyed this, today down in Florida, land of well, two extremes.
It’s a very gaslit era, so much appreciation to the art and artists helping things make some sense.
Very good rewrites here! Cheers
ive been watching videos of this cat doing this song for years and god bless. i hope he keeps it up for however long it takes for this country to have an actual leftist party.
Join DSA today. If you can't go to meetings pay dues.
That means a lot to me knowing you are out there enjoying my occasional updates! ❤
@@shaunsmith9013 This is the liberal he's singing about. Yes that includes red star and other deluded factions within that moribund formation.
@antiroman458 be serious person. Fasicsm is on the rise. Jesse is not the person to be pushing away.
@@antiroman458 uhoh 😆
This was great! 😂 It's amazing how well Phil Ochs holds up after all these years.
It's depressing is what it is.
Love your updated version ❤ It's striking to hear it and realize how little has changed since 1966. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
How about we work on our own countries first? I don't care about theocratic fascists and their forever war.
I care even less about "palestine" because I hate being voluntold.
God bless you 😂 glad this found my algorithm ☝️🗝❤️🔥
A perfect update to a great song. Thank you, Ben.
I’ve been thinking a lot about Phil Ochs lately. Very well done
The sarcasm is wonderful 😂
No one is more critical of Liberals than other Liberals
That line about "turning you in" seems like it's shaping up to be tested. We'll get to see who's ok with continuing to be collaborators.
Phil Ochs would love his work being modernized, great job!
based
Man, this is so accurate and awesome.
Amazing. Congratulations from Brazil. Hope people from U.S hear you
this is the best modern version I've heard! it really captures the spirit of the original. god bless you man!
Ireland for the Irish
Perfect adaptation! Love your singing of this classic by Phil. Exactly what I needed to hear after the latest turn of events.
Cheers!
Nice rendition of the Phil Ochs classic! ✌️
Great update to a great song :)
Thsnks ben free Palestine
What is 'Palestin'
@@cohenlabe1The land that Israel that has colonised.
@riztiz you are wrong. Do you even know what a colony means. Isreal has been the land of Israel in the position of the people of Israel aka the Jews for over 3000 years that is called reality
@@riztiz you are wrong. Do you even know what a colony is. The land of Israel belongs to the children of Israel aka the Jews for over 3000 years. Reason why non Jews had Gaza was for peace with people who refused to live in Israeli population all Jews where removed to give them there nut Z heaven and they still invaded Israel
@@riztizArabs colonized it before, what goes around comes around.
Great voice, thanks for sharing!
this is SO good!!!
I would be a liberal but I am only eighteen and I've got a ruptured spleen and I always carry a purse. I've got eyes of a bat and my feet are flat and my asthma's getting worse.
Great update!
I love this variation
shouldve swapped that line for "What's the matter, don't they watch Bill Maher?"
Damn you're right.
Other than adding Kamala in and a brief reference to the genocide in Gaza this is pretty much identical to previous versions from the 2010s. Surely there is a way to write a more up-to-date criticism of American nationalism and the valuing of access to treats over human rights?
I would love to hear them. Post here if you can find any. Cheers!
Great stuff Ben! Thank you
Absolutely brilliant
I love your lyrics to this song. So profound. This truly helps bring us up. Yes, love one another as yourself.
A certified hood classic🔥
Thanks for each iteration🐐
Thanks Ben.It is one of my favorite songs
Not just a great message, but also great skill!
This is a really good cover
Great Job, my brother...
All the way nice! You took it and made it your own!
Love the song 😂 power to the working class and all oppressed peoples! 💪❤
This is the Love Me I'm a Liberal of 2024 I was looking for 😂
very nice re-written version of the song.
Phil Ochs would be proud. ❤
Topical as it ever could be, good work!
Excellent as always!
Great spin off of the original. Love it.
😆 It's funny because it's (eternally) true. 😆 👍
nice song there, comrade
Excellent reimagining of this song, love it!
thank you!
Its awful just like kamala
As a Liberal, i approve!
Thank you for appreciating this song, especially because it roasts certain cherished beliefs and political commitments that you may hold, or at least liberals in general are likely to hold.
@BenGrosscup Well, Liberals have always been the most self-critical camp. Guess making jokes at our expense is one way we've been coping with the events of last week!
Brilliant!
The theme of the decade.
Amazing stuff
Great work
incredible performance
Nailed it.
perfect
Uhhhhhhhhhhh! So this is what Hell is like.
Wonderful, i feel matt orfelea and you would have a great collaboration
After the election this helps.
Well done, that was an excellent successor to the original, truly. 👏
Where is that building? Cambridge, NYC, DC?
Springfield, MA
@@BenGrosscupThanks, Ben! 😘🖖
So funny and relevant
nice 🎉😅
Nice
Someone send this to Hasan Piker please
gotta maintain the statice quoe 🙄
you are beautiful.
I'm not crying, you're crying.
❤
Not bad. Nearly as good as the Marsh Family -- and at least as effective.
♥♥♥🔥🔥🔥
Another good one man. Voice is in fine fettle.
- Peace in the middle east, as we used to say....
Algorithm nation!
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Martyrs lolz🎉🎉
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Whats the original name of the song, my friend changed I will follow him up on my page
Love me I'm a liberal, og is by Phil ocha
assange did not care about exposing bad people, same as snowden. they literally went for help to russia, the country who's objectively one of the worsts in this way.
Assange exposed war crimes of the US state, particularly under teh GW Bush Admin. When he was persecuted by the US, he was charged on account of having exposed these crimes.
@@BenGrosscup According to the New York Times, in November 2010 "Assange had mused about seeking refuge in Russia", and Russia issued Assange a visa in January 2011.
Russian state is objectively far more criminal and evil than US. he didn't care about exposing war crimes or any other bad acts
@@BenGrosscup nice strategy to delete my other comments that respond to you
Real sixko
Diddy
LMAO
Liberals
Bravo!
38 libs cant face the mirror😆
Lolololol derp derp
Did you just step out of a time machine? You're terrific, I love you.
literally every liberal supports palestine bruh tf
I have not found that to be true at all. If you consider the Biden admin to be liberals (and I do), they have been funding the genocide against Palestinians by arming Israel regularly throughout the entirety of the genocide which began October 2023. So I dispute what you are saying.
@@BenGrosscup no, by liberals i'm meaning regular people, not politicians. they have no choice but to arm israel, there's huge israeli lobby in US politics. Biden's and Kamala's administation are FAR better choices for palestine compared to trump. it's lesser of two evils
@@ayooo454 i hate to break it to you but there are many regular liberals that do support israel. people unwaveringly support a liberal democracy in the middle east even if it means overlooking everything.
I like the new lyrics. Some of these cut a little too deep, but people on the left need to make fun of themselves every once in a while. Speaking for myself here. The big take away, in my view, is that you can vote fore the Dems. while at the same time acknowledging that they're the "good cop" in the "good cop / bad cop" dynamic.
I don't feel like the message has quite sunk in
@@gav7428 It hasn't, but we gotta love those liberals.
That’s a good analogy. Because, if you will remember, the two cops are each acting, maybe one more than the other, and they have the same objective.
i think you missed the point of the song lol. the Dems are not on the left.
They’re cops alright.