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Likewise, Bragg's groupies tend to be young earnest types who know Billy will give them a decent and friendly talking-to about socialism, imperialism, and even mundane matters like marriage...
June's General Election was, of course, a major blow to the Red Wedge ideal--and apparently all of the journalists over here have asked Bragg to explain "what went wrong." He maintains that "it's still the effort that matters...
...here in the Americas, Bragg is invited to folk festivals--in Vancouver, Toronto, Newport, and "by way of Dictatorship Airlines," in Managua, at the Festival Internacional del Libro Nicaragua...
Invited by the Sandinista Minister of Culture, Bragg calls his visit down South "an incredible eye-opener." He was able to travel around a bit, visiting medical centers around the Honduran and Costa Rican borders, and speaking to Sandinistas as well as to ordinary people...
...however reassuring Bragg's politics, there's nevertheless something slightly nettlesome about being preached to. One fortunate side of Bragg is that he anticipates all of the complaints--even the ones about how chick it seems to have become for rock stars (Bono of U2, Jackson Browne, and so on) to go down to see what's really going on down there--and he's ready to deal forthrightly with the complaints...