We’re the bright young men, who want to go back to Nineteen-Ten, we’re Barry’s Boys.
We’re the kids with a cause, yes a government like grandmama’s, we’re Barry’s boys.
We’re the new kind of youth at your alma mater,
Back to silver standards and solid Goldwater
Back to when the poor were poor and the rich were rich…
Those are the opening lines of a satirical ditty sung by the Chad Mitchell Trio back in 1964. Senator Barry Goldwater seemed like an arch-conservative Republican war-monger to most Americans in those days. In 2013 Goldwater would probably be deemed too progressive for Republican Party politics.
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