"Dressed in golden pants"  would've rhymed better.
Oh well.

I'm not a big fan of Neil Young, but I like the raw tone and overall rhythmic insistence of this song.

 Dynai wrote: 
I wonder why you join RP then!!

I love Neil Young when he rocks. I love him when he gets all political and righteously-indignant.  I love him, period.

 lwilkinson wrote: 
My comment from a year ago still stands................................

 Gryn wrote: 
"....da da da .....pick your hatred up ..... da da ..... pick your hatred of Neil Young uuuppppp... da dum da dum ....'

A virtual cacaphony of loud, senseless blather by the king of "I can't get past 1969"......

 crockydile wrote: 
Maybe that's why i like this song so much. I'm not a Neil Young fan but mostly because i don't know the most of his work, this one really speaks to me...

Right on!!
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pearl jam and neil young - it rocks

I'm sick of this song. Not on par with his other stuff.

 LowPhreak wrote: 

Dude... throw your hatred down!

Great freaking band.   Will be seeing them again soon - without the lead singer from this tune

 Businessgypsy wrote: 

Easy to say Mr. Right Wing Faux Tough Guy, when you have a job that pays enough to allow you to do that. Not what a large percentage of America has though.

And just wait until you get a major illness/surgery or injury. You'll be losing everything you have after you've paid for that wonderful, overpriced "insurance" you bought.

Keep voting right wing, dumb ass, and keep dreaming for the day when you'll have an excuse to shoot someone with your pop gun.

Do it now

 On_The_Beach wrote: 

 lmic wrote:  

I don't think people in Europe have any illusions. We don't trust our governments, but the difference is we've been aware of government duplicity for a long time. We know that people get elected to make sure they feather their own nests. Americans are much more naïve. Until recently most of them actually believed all that "democracy" propaganda and now that they are learning the truth, they're all "up in arms." I see it as a sign of growing up. Every society has to do it. We in Europe have had many centuries to deal with our kings, queens, emperors, dictators, etc. Now it's the turn of the Americans to deal with the liars in their government and figure out what to do about their crumbling empire. Good luck.

 lmic wrote: 
This is one of the most incisive, spot-on observations I've read in a while.  And concise!  That's a load of cultural/political baggage packed into one sentence.  Since you framed it in the form of a question (sort of), I'll take a crack at it.

I think people feel powerless and defeated by enemies and forces beyond their comprehension:  the financial fat-cats and their clients in D.C.; globalism and the resulting displacement of an industrial class; rising secularism and strident atheism, which they interpret as an affront to the very essence of their identities as Americans; the impotency, loss of power and prestige of the U.S. in geopolitics; the shattering of the American Myth in countless ways.  The list goes on and on.  

Just as with urban gang-bangers who feel empowered by their weaponry, the tea-party folks, survivalists, militia-types, First Amendment obsessives, and other "fetishists," as you aptly refer to them, look to their weaponry as the last measure of their ability to bend the flow of history to their liking.  Obama was right when he said these people "cling" to guns and religion when they feel distressed and powerless.  In "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" American mythology, redress of grievances and injustice is always just a courageous leader away.  But now people see the hyper-partisanship and the influence peddling in D.C. as two sides of the same dysfunctional coin, so there's no point in looking to Washington for help.  What's left?  Pitchforks. Cynicism.  Conspiracy theories.  And a whole "news" network dedicated to perpetuating and exploiting this rage for its own selfish ends.

(What got into me?  I don't think of myself as being very political.  Hmmm...)

Man, he is a mud duck on the guitar.

Well, it's got a good beat, but doesn't seem much like a dance song...

 On_The_Beach wrote:  Yuck!  She looks like a manikin from the Dawn of the Dead set.....and her right arm is on wrong.

 On_The_Beach wrote:  Someone get her a cheeseburger quick!!!

Judging from the comments, I guess this song gets the "Sweet Home Alabama" type worked up.  For the rest of us, if you haven't run across Mirrorball it's a great record, and this is not at all the best song on it.
And, by the way, about the comment before me.  Yes to bare arms, but that woman is closer to naked bones. She needs to meet a good cook. 

I have no problem with the right to bare arms:

 fredriley wrote:
Fred,

The chance of me or my family getting gunned down is pretty rare, but the obnoxious behavior of smokers lighting up where ever they please and stinking up restaurants and bars is now against the law in New York State.

So now I can go out in public and not stink up my clothes and increase my chances of a cold due to smokers. Yeah, we have guns, and it is a problem,but it's not just an American problem.

At least we don't have people strapping bombs to their chests and walking into shopping malls, schools, and churches.

 fredriley wrote: 
In our twisted logic here in "TLotF," we demand the right to bear arms—and believe me, we're gonna get it but good after McDonald v. Chicago is decided under a Roberts Court—for the simple reason that we don't trust our gov't. And why should we? Unlike in the European countries, American governance is currently constituted of the special interests, by the special interests, for the special interests.

Why we don't just insist that government do its job for the people, instead of making a popular fetish of caching weapons to defend against it, is beyond me.

 unclehud wrote: 

Sorry.  I should have used the sarcasm emoticon.