I got to see Snider live at the Yellowsprings arts festival. He sang this song but afterwards, no one really clapped. He said, "Well, I dunno about that song... Some of you seem really pissed at me now." I nearly died from laughter, nevermind the angry white guys glaring at me. GOD he's just hilarious. GREAT video. I'll be showing this to all of my friends.
they wound like people who are doing a wonderful thing in service to our Lord, and I'm glad to hear that you are supporting the ministry. If everybody did the same the world would be a far better place.
@kilox10001 Harvard's first rule when they first started was "Let every student be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to consider well, the main end of his life and studies is to know God and Jesus Christ which is eternal life John 17:3 and therefore to lay Jesus Christ as the only foundation for our children to follow the moral principles of the Ten Commandments"
Haha, clever video! Todd Snider is so talented, and funny. (Note to the people who are complaining about being stereotyped: This song was not meant to be taken literally. Todd was just having a little fun. :-)
I think anyone who takes a side on any issue just because it is a "right" or a "left" issue without actually getting the facts is no smarter than the Nazi soldier marching in lockstep...which I refuse to do. I actually believe most truth is found in the middle. And having said that.......I love this song.
I agree with you I look at the facts and then judge but a lot of the time I lead to the left. The conservatives are to full of hate are usually unintelligent because they are brainwashed by religion. Lately their stance is nothing only the opposite of Obama offers they have no solutions but that being said I like their stance on business they are way better than the left. Some issues I go right but I usually go left but you have to look at the facts first before you just pick a side
+ojjuice man then why are so many liberals feminist man haters and why would they want to have idiots as president that will make American fail/communism
I'm FREAKING out! who is on the real side!!!! My left or his right!!! It's all reversed by video then by my optic nerves! Then add audio, and everything is confused. Do you trust eyes, ears, or brain? Senses can be misleading as conclusions can be.
The cartoon depicts the loathsome conservative with a urban backdrop and the indolent gay drug user with a country backdrop. Shouldn't those environments be switched?
Has anyone ever lived in both the city and the country? In the environment on the left, probably 80% of people are similar to the guy on the right and vice versa.
@forevershining1 from wikipedia: Fiscal conservatives often consider reduction of overall government spending and national debt as well as ensuring balanced budget of paramount importance. Free trade, deregulation of the economy, lower taxes, and other conservative policies are also often but not necessarily affiliated with fiscal conservatism.
Easter was originally the celebration of Ishtar, the Assyrian and Babylonian goddess of fertility and sex. Her symbols (like the egg and the bunny) were and still are fertility and sex symbols (or did you actually think eggs and bunnies had anything to do with the resurrection?). After Constantine decided to Christianize the Empire, Easter was changed to represent Jesus. But at its roots, Easter (which is how you pronounce Ishtar) is all about celebrating fertility and sex.
hey guys lets not let this great, generalizing, funny song make us squabble here on youtube, for goodness' sake. We're all going to get up Nov. 3rd and go about our business, am I right? great video, by the way.
Right or left. Republican or Democrat. That's a great phony divisive idea to keep people distracted and far far away from thought of any kind. Yeah, keep it up. Thanks Mr.Todd. Excellent.
@moach; Actually, none of the Founders or Framers were atheist. However I think at least two (Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson) were both Deist. But you're point still stands.
Love Todd Snider too!! So witty!! I think it's BOTH particularly taking the right wing to task while laughing at himself and liberal stereotypes at the same time.
Hey... I'm a Conservative, Christian, Right-Wing Republican, Straight, White American Male. I love tree huggin, peace lovin, pot smokin, bare footin, folk singin, hippies. My brother-in-law is one, and we relate on lots of topics.... Thats the beauty of resisting polemic idealogy.
@Jeremy; Why should I pay for your father? Are you voting Democrat to FORCE everyone to pay for your medical expenses? Listen, I'd gladly donate to some kind of medical foundation or charity, who will spend that money to help your dad, but I will not let myself be FORCED by the government to pay for others. That's coercion and theft, which is wrong. I'm sorry for your father. Truly. However, politics should be governed by the head, not the heart.
Back in the day [before I was even born] they spelled Potato with an E. There was a politician who caused a fuss because he visited an elementary school and forced a kid to spell it Potatoe instead of the accepted way without the E.
my parents are missionaries in Africa and I donate to their ministry. With the money they run a school grades 1 through 6, an AIDS orphan program, a woman's literacy program, and a sustainable agriculture program.
@leahporche "We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive." - C. S. Lewis
@choff14 as someone who smokes pot (but pays for it with my own money i earned), i have to say that your attitude is fucking awesome. thank you. if more conservatives where like you, the worl would be a better place.
@kilox10001 Some of our greatest leaders were Christian, Catholic, Jewish, etc etc. Like Abraham Lincoln, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, George Washington, Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt, etc. etc.
Certainly not the college for 75% of it after the intro classes. Virtually all of my advanced level classes were independent research on a chosen topic. Sometimes your papers agreed with the professor's position and sometimes they didn't. The fun ones were where they didn't. I was never fed a conclusion. University curriculum is pretty much wide open. Even in the so-called "taught classes," we were expected to research and analyze a wide range of positions and draw our own conclusions.
ReppaBlicken- Just how much crystal-meth did you have to inhale to come up with that amalgam of mixed metaphors and twisted hyperbole? Or, ... were you just being facetious?
I was raised on country, so I didn't mind style. I'm also a poli-sci major, so it was fun. :) Although this song would be a lot more fun as a metal song \m/ ... :D
@Dlerue; Yes. That is in fact the logical outcome. Bravo. We get more funding because we use our military much more. Of course we spend more on the military because the rest of the developed world depends on our military might to keep the peace. If we stopped spending as much as we do on the Pentagon, the military spending of Europe would necessarily go up.
there are differnces between each of the following lables, Right-wing, conservative, republican, as well for the opposite of each, Left wing, liberal, democrate, there are as well the labels of traditionalist and secular-progressive, these can pretty much be mixed how ever you would like, a repulican can be liberal, as such a democrate conservative, in todays politics though poeple in offices tend to be striaght out 1 side or the other,its rare today they are mixed
I enjoyed it. Liked the tune, the message, and cartooning a lot too. Used to be a Republican until the party supported that jerk Reagan. That's when I knew that they weren't any real Republicans in the party any more and left. "Bob" and Connie would like this video too, but where the hell is "Bob's" pipe?
...We believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially to the people of the new country of New California. To sum up briefly: You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states. We get stem cell research and the best beaches. We get Elliot Spitzer. You get Ken Lay."
Everybody has a place. But what happens when one side argues that not everybody 'should' have a place? It's never pleasant when 1 mind sight rules all.
He will run as one of those third parties like he always does. And Yes I like Ron Paul next to Gary Johnson he is the bet man running he is a libertarian Conservative which is what we need.
@Shadowlit001 I didn't state if the dad was right or wrong. I just wrote a story and asked a question. Okay though, you're right, it's not my place to decide which one gets a hundred dollars. Doesn't mean I can't form an opinion though. Who do you think is more deserving of a hundred? Toby or his brother?
It made sense to Adam Smith, father of capitalism. Direct quote from 'The Wealth of Nations', largely regarded as the basis for capitalism: "It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion." I'm not suggesting that you, a random youtube commenter, aren't more qualified to discuss progressive taxation than the father of capitalism, I'm just saying thats what HE thought.
I'm a conservative, Christian, straight, white, republican, male. The only thing I don't like about this is why the title is messed up.
Watching in 2019... Good lord how much more polarized have things gotten...
I got to see Snider live at the Yellowsprings arts festival. He sang this song but afterwards, no one really clapped. He said, "Well, I dunno about that song... Some of you seem really pissed at me now." I nearly died from laughter, nevermind the angry white guys glaring at me. GOD he's just hilarious. GREAT video. I'll be showing this to all of my friends.
they wound like people who are doing a wonderful thing in service to our Lord, and I'm glad to hear that you are supporting the ministry. If everybody did the same the world would be a far better place.
Damn, this video is old. I remember seeing yeeeeaars ago.
Wound up back here years later because todd snider is coming to houston soon :-D
This is friggen awesome!!! I am sharing on Facebook with EVERYONE!!!
Turned the speed to 1.5 and made it so much better to watch! Picked the tempo up and still could understand it!
@kilox10001 Harvard's first rule when they first started was "Let every student be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to consider well, the main end of his life and studies is to know God and Jesus Christ which is eternal life John 17:3 and therefore to lay Jesus Christ as the only foundation for our children to follow the moral principles of the Ten Commandments"
DYNAMITE song and video! I'll take the tree. 🌳
I am an old hippie and a Conservative, right wing Republican, Christian old hippie.
Todd Lanter hey man me too 👍🇺🇸
PURELY BRILLIANT! Never get's old. Thanks.
Video fits song's tone nicely. Thanks for the post!
Haha, clever video! Todd Snider is so talented, and funny. (Note to the people who are complaining about being stereotyped: This song was not meant to be taken literally. Todd was just having a little fun. :-)
I think anyone who takes a side on any issue just because it is a "right" or a "left" issue without actually getting the facts is no smarter than the Nazi soldier marching in lockstep...which I refuse to do. I actually believe most truth is found in the middle. And having said that.......I love this song.
I agree with you I look at the facts and then judge but a lot of the time I lead to the left. The conservatives are to full of hate are usually unintelligent because they are brainwashed by religion. Lately their stance is nothing only the opposite of Obama offers they have no solutions but that being said I like their stance on business they are way better than the left. Some issues I go right but I usually go left but you have to look at the facts first before you just pick a side
+ojjuice man then why are so many liberals feminist man haters and why would they want to have idiots as president that will make American fail/communism
I like the little Cartoon Todd.
It looks like it's high.
"From now on, as of this moment, you can do whatever you want." - Rev. Willie at Slack Attack Devival, Dallas
funny that you said the ignorant shouldn't leave comments, and then you went right ahead and did just that.
Bravo!
Preserve Democracy/Capitalism, vote Republican!
Amen brother! You're saying something potent right there!
You need 2 wings to fly. Flap the left wing harder and you'll slowly move the the right, and vice-versa. There has to be a balance.
I like the song, and I think you did a great job on the animation.
Fab video sir, mucho enjoyment!
Great song, great video
Well here it
is 2023, and this song is more timely than ever. ... well except maybe the Dan Quayle reference... potato?
"Why, oh why, was it left to the Republicans to be the responsible adults of this society." - thanks man. I laughed for hours.
This is a great video!
great vid! im sure todd would be impressed.
Video is inaccurate. Hippie should have been on left side of screen and conservative should of been on right side.
+joe chaney the hippie is on the left- the characters left.
I'm FREAKING out! who is on the real side!!!! My left or his right!!! It's all reversed by video then by my optic nerves! Then add audio, and everything is confused. Do you trust eyes, ears, or brain? Senses can be misleading as conclusions can be.
Chad Thompson I hope that isnt your real thought process....
To the cartoon characters he is on the left. Only a Stooges fan could appreciate the irony.
The cartoon depicts the loathsome conservative with a urban backdrop and the indolent gay drug user with a country backdrop. Shouldn't those environments be switched?
MrHotreels No.
MrHotreels I can see how it might be appropriate.
The urban area is representing big business and the country is representing nature, so no!
Has anyone ever lived in both the city and the country? In the environment on the left, probably 80% of people are similar to the guy on the right and vice versa.
The left wing would be covered in shit on the streets of california to be honest
This song is great! It would be great if we could all put those silly story books down and get along.... but that isn't the world we live in.
@forevershining1
from wikipedia:
Fiscal conservatives often consider reduction of overall government spending and national debt as well as ensuring balanced budget of paramount importance. Free trade, deregulation of the economy, lower taxes, and other conservative policies are also often but not necessarily affiliated with fiscal conservatism.
Easter was originally the celebration of Ishtar, the Assyrian and Babylonian goddess of fertility and sex. Her symbols (like the egg and the bunny) were and still are fertility and sex symbols (or did you actually think eggs and bunnies had anything to do with the resurrection?). After Constantine decided to Christianize the Empire, Easter was changed to represent Jesus. But at its roots, Easter (which is how you pronounce Ishtar) is all about celebrating fertility and sex.
💯💯💯💯
Thought-provoking cool video!
So well said, and all respect to you for that... You and your friends keep safe!!!
hey guys lets not let this great, generalizing, funny song make us squabble here on youtube, for goodness' sake. We're all going to get up Nov. 3rd and go about our business, am I right? great video, by the way.
Right or left. Republican or Democrat. That's a great phony divisive idea to keep people distracted and far far away from thought of any kind. Yeah, keep it up. Thanks Mr.Todd. Excellent.
@moach; Actually, none of the Founders or Framers were atheist.
However I think at least two (Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson)
were both Deist. But you're point still stands.
Love Todd Snider too!! So witty!! I think it's BOTH particularly taking the right wing to task while laughing at himself and liberal stereotypes at the same time.
haha! that was an amazing comeback :D
man this is so spot on.
Hey... I'm a Conservative, Christian, Right-Wing Republican, Straight, White American Male.
I love tree huggin, peace lovin, pot smokin, bare footin, folk singin, hippies. My brother-in-law is one, and we relate on lots of topics....
Thats the beauty of resisting polemic idealogy.
I am going to have to remember that one. Well spoken.
@Jeremy; Why should I pay for your father? Are you voting Democrat to FORCE everyone to pay for your medical expenses?
Listen, I'd gladly donate to some kind of medical foundation or charity, who will spend that money to help your dad, but I will not let myself be FORCED by the government to pay for others. That's coercion and theft, which is wrong.
I'm sorry for your father. Truly. However, politics should be governed by the head, not the heart.
Also it appears that you are a veteran. If so, thank you very much for your service to our country. Peace.
this doesnt stereotype AT ALL . . .
nice job being so accepting of everyone!!! nice to see you dont discriminate!!! AWESOME.
Back in the day [before I was even born] they spelled Potato with an E. There was a politician who caused a fuss because he visited an elementary school and forced a kid to spell it Potatoe instead of the accepted way without the E.
This is awesome.
my parents are missionaries in Africa and I donate to their ministry. With the money they run a school grades 1 through 6, an AIDS orphan program, a woman's literacy program, and a sustainable agriculture program.
This is cool!! Release it!
Widespread diggin' hippies like ME! Should've put up a poster of JB/Houser/Jojo/Herring on that shoutout.
I loooveeee this video
LAWLZ.
I love this video!
:)
Love this song and sum up many of our Congressional republicans and the tea bagger folks
Great job!
@ChoujiMan I get the same feeling, but coupled with a little indigestion too, knowing that the hippies couldn't run 'Merica either... Oh well
EXCELLENT !!
lol clas of "69" HAHAHA i love it
@leahporche "We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive." - C. S. Lewis
great video thanks for singing about the truth :]]
Best video ever, man.
good work. I like the fact that the butterfly only flies over Todd Snider, and are those dog biscuts the conservitive is throwing down or money?
@sabin97 Agreed with everything.. but what do you mean by a "fiscal conservative"?
Love!!!
If those are the requirements for hippy then I'm as hippy as they come.
Well done. I know there were still hippies out there like me.
@choff14 as someone who smokes pot (but pays for it with my own money i earned), i have to say that your attitude is fucking awesome. thank you. if more conservatives where like you, the worl would be a better place.
I love this video.
Though is it ironic that the conservative has the face of Bob Dobbs?
@kilox10001 Some of our greatest leaders were Christian, Catholic, Jewish, etc etc. Like Abraham Lincoln, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, George Washington, Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt, etc. etc.
Holy $***! It's Bob Dobson! The Almighty Bob!
EXCELLENT
Certainly not the college for 75% of it after the intro classes.
Virtually all of my advanced level classes were independent research on a chosen topic.
Sometimes your papers agreed with the professor's position and sometimes they didn't. The fun ones were where they didn't. I was never fed a conclusion.
University curriculum is pretty much wide open. Even in the so-called "taught classes," we were expected to research and analyze a wide range of positions and draw our own conclusions.
ReppaBlicken- Just how much crystal-meth did you have to inhale to come up with that amalgam of mixed metaphors and twisted hyperbole?
Or, ... were you just being facetious?
this was great.
hahhaha hell yea! Kucinich in 08! I want a hippie in our white house!
Love Todd Snider and this video!!!!!!! Lazy Ass Hippies Rule!!!
I was raised on country, so I didn't mind style. I'm also a poli-sci major, so it was fun. :) Although this song would be a lot more fun as a metal song \m/ ... :D
I'm a Methodist pastor and I freakin love this song!!
ew
Baptist pastor. Nice to see another Protestant on TH-cam. Seems to be either Catholics or Atheists now
Yo protestants! Where you at?
calling yourself something dont make you that something.. your a fake leftist
😂
america is such a big place. its the craziest thing how people can change from one part of the country to another.
I love the smell of straw men in the morning!
Bahaha, absolutely genius.
is that why you drool all over yerself?
All I can say is I love it !
Liberals, communists, socialists, democrats. They are each nicer names given after one meaning.
@Dlerue; Yes. That is in fact the logical outcome. Bravo.
We get more funding because we use our military much more. Of course we spend more on the military because the rest of the developed world depends on our military might to keep the peace. If we stopped spending as much as we do on the Pentagon, the military spending of Europe would necessarily go up.
there are differnces between each of the following lables, Right-wing, conservative, republican, as well for the opposite of each, Left wing, liberal, democrate, there are as well the labels of traditionalist and secular-progressive, these can pretty much be mixed how ever you would like, a repulican can be liberal, as such a democrate conservative, in todays politics though poeple in offices tend to be striaght out 1 side or the other,its rare today they are mixed
I enjoyed it. Liked the tune, the message, and cartooning a lot too. Used to be a Republican until the party supported that jerk Reagan. That's when I knew that they weren't any real Republicans in the party any more and left. "Bob" and Connie would like this video too, but where the hell is "Bob's" pipe?
Don't get your underwear in a bundle everyone. This song is just to be funny not to make anyone argue.
...We believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially to the people of the new country of New California.
To sum up briefly: You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states. We get stem cell research and the best beaches. We get Elliot Spitzer. You get Ken Lay."
I don't know about "boring", I saw some stuff going on in parliament or something on C-Span. It looked WAY more interesting than our congress.
Everybody has a place. But what happens when one side argues that not everybody 'should' have a place? It's never pleasant when 1 mind sight rules all.
Todd Snider is THE MAN!
Love that guy!!!
He will run as one of those third parties like he always does. And Yes I like Ron Paul next to Gary Johnson he is the bet man running he is a libertarian Conservative which is what we need.
@Shadowlit001 I didn't state if the dad was right or wrong. I just wrote a story and asked a question. Okay though, you're right, it's not my place to decide which one gets a hundred dollars. Doesn't mean I can't form an opinion though. Who do you think is more deserving of a hundred? Toby or his brother?
I can't only listen to this song once.
It made sense to Adam Smith, father of capitalism. Direct quote from 'The Wealth of Nations', largely regarded as the basis for capitalism:
"It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion."
I'm not suggesting that you, a random youtube commenter, aren't more qualified to discuss progressive taxation than the father of capitalism, I'm just saying thats what HE thought.
Yes it does, it works at making people happy, but not much else, and while thats good, there are far more important things
I love todd snider he rules like in the tunnles
great song
this song is awesome