{"id":1773,"date":"2019-01-11T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/?p=1773"},"modified":"2019-01-09T09:34:43","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T09:34:43","slug":"song-of-the-week-the-walls-came-down-by-the-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/?p=1773","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Week: &#8220;The Walls Came Down&#8221; by The Call"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is &#8220;The Walls Came Down&#8221; by The Call:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p class=\"responsive-video-wrap clr\"><iframe title=\"The Call - The Walls Came Down\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_kX8lqXAONg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s been a lot of bigly talk lately from some fascist about a wall and how it&#8217;ll magically solve all the hugely problems. A basic study of history will point your average wall enthusiast towards the conclusion that whatever they&#8217;re supposed to accomplish, walls don&#8217;t work. But it&#8217;s worth keeping in mind that some fascist doesn&#8217;t really care what a wall along the border between the United States of America and the Estados Unidos Mexicanos might or might not do; some fascist just wants to build it because he thinks demonizing the people on one side and trumping up a crisis that isn&#8217;t there and wouldn&#8217;t be fixed by concrete or steel anyway helps him consolidate his power on the other side. Some fascist and some other fascists that enable him are &#8220;just corporate criminals \/ playing with tanks,&#8221; and no wall is going to keep the people from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Aztl\u00e1n (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VbKxPWYZ69E\" target=\"_blank\">Aztl\u00e1n<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"DouglasCowie\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Song%20of%20the%20Week%3A%20%22The%20Walls%20Came%20Down%22%20by%20The%20Call\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it. 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