This day in history: "Imagine", the most popular of John Lennon's songs after the breakup of The Beatles, was released as a single in the United States on this day in 1971. Lennon himself says this about his song: "The song ‘Imagine,’ which says, Imagine that there was no more religion, no more country, no more politics is virtually the communist manifesto, even though I am not particularly a communist and I do not belong to any movement. You see, ‘Imagine’ was exactly the same message, but sugar-coated. Now ‘Imagine’ is a big hit almost everywhere; anti-religious, anti-nationalistic, anti-conventional, anti-capitalistic song, but because it is sugar-coated it is accepted. Now I understand what you have to do."
At FreedomFest 2009, they came out with a newer Libertarian version of Imagine:
Imagine there’s no taxation
It’s easy if you try
No IRS below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living to be free.
Imagine no politicians.
Telling us what to do.
No forms to fill out for.
And no inflation too
Imagine all the people
Living without Social Security.
You may say that I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday they’ll join us
And liberty will have won.
Imagine no regulations.
I wonder if you can
No need for laws to control us
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Competing in the world
You may say that I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday they’ll join us
And liberty will have won. ~Source
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