The Spokesmen - The Dawn of Correction

The patriotic answer song by The Spokesmen to Barry McGuire's communistic-protesting diatribe "The Eve of destruction". The audio recording is from vinyl and the images are the most appropriate that I could find.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• communism
• protest
• vietnam
• folk
• vietcong
• Ho Chi Minh
• LBJ
• Kennedy
• Fonda
• Hanoi

[dendlai]

Epic. Truly epic. You can't fake this level of bad.

[CyberWallX]

what do you mean with COMMUNISTIC-protesting?!

[MaceMn]

Don't know which is worse, the sound or the video. They both suck.

[ferdinandthecrow]

They don't sound very right wing, supporting the Peace Corps, the UN & voting rights marches

[shmuli9]

What a bizarre song... Most "answer" songs are somewhat amusing; this one is just BAD...

[sodapoprags]

@Hister333 I never said mutually assured destruction was a lie, I said it was a bad idea and pretty damn dangerous. I still don't think you even understand this conversation.

Your second argument doesn't even make sense. I could just as easily say: I'm glad you need a rock star to tell you that things are even better than they are. I just close my eyes.

[Hister333]

@sodapoprags You STILL haven't proven that mutually assured destruction is a lie. As for "protest," I'm glad you need a rock star to tell you the world is even more messed up than it is. I just go outside.

[sodapoprags]

@Hister333 Barry wasn't writing from the future... A protest song protests current events, there is no prophecy or time travel involved. It's funny that you can be so critical of a musician and so lenient on politicians--shouldn't you be more outraged by the deaths resulting from faulty policies than a protest song, the message of which is that if we don't change our ways (nuclear stand-off, bloody costly foreign wars) mankind is heading for literal/moral destruction? Many people were destroyed.

[Hister333]

@sodapoprags Actually, not in the slightest. Domino Theory is the idea that the commies are slowly taking over countries to get here. Mutually assured destruction is the idea that the Russians aren't dumb enough to bomb us (or vice versa), 'cause the the world would end. Just tell me the world died soon after 1965, as Barry McGuire attests, and we'll be good.

[sodapoprags]

@Hister333 What? Domino Theory and mutual destruction aren't the same thing. You're just vainly defending your initial view to keep some measure of pride. If you want to jam out to a lameass song, keep listening to "Eve of Correction," and I'll keep jamming out to my nihilistic communist propaganda--oh well.

[Hister333]

@sodapoprags Yeah, the Domino Theory mentioned in this song is about as silly as the idea that we were on the "Eve of Destruction" in 1965.

[sodapoprags]

@Hister333 No, you faggot. Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, all of these were satellite conflicts in part of the Cold War containment policy. Thousands of civilians were slaughtered and American youth sent to die based on an ill-conceived paranoid strategy. Pussies like you want to act like "oh it all worked out in the end because neither Russia or the US got bombed." Thousands of people died you smarmy fucktard. The nuclear stand off was just plain stupid, but the deaths are the real tragedy.