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« on: October 07, 2016, 12:32:50 am »


from The Washington Post....

Bruce Springsteen: ‘The republic is under siege by a moron’

By FRED BARBASH | 5:24AM EDT - Thursday, October 06, 2016

Bruce Springsteen performs at the Stand Up For Heroes event in New York in November 2015. — Photograph: Greg Allen/Invision/Associated Press.
Bruce Springsteen performs at the Stand Up For Heroes event in New York in November 2015.
 — Photograph: Greg Allen/Invision/Associated Press.


SOME PEOPLE think “Bruce Springsteen elected Barack Obama.”

So it's no huge surprise Springsteen thinks Donald Trump is a “moron” or that he would sympathize with Black Lives Matter and Colin Kaepernick.

But the Boss has a way with words, which he demonstrated once again in a new interview with Rolling Stone.

Here are a few excerpts:


On Trump:

The republic is under siege by a moron, basically. The whole thing is tragic. Without overstating it, it's a tragedy for our democracy. When you start talking about elections being rigged, you're pushing people beyond democratic governance. And it's a very, very dangerous thing to do. Once you let those genies out of the bottle, they don't go back in so easy, if they go back in at all. The ideas he's moving to the mainstream are all very dangerous ideas — white nationalism and the alt-right movement. The outrageous things that he's done — not immediately disavowing David Duke? These are things that are obviously beyond the pale for any previous political candidate. It would sink your candidacy immediately.

On Black Lives Matter:

Well, it's all chickens coming home to roost. These are issues that have been ignored or hidden, and due to modern technology and the availability of cellphone cameras and constant video feed, these things are coming to the surface. Black Lives Matter is a natural outgrowth and response to the injustices that have been occurring for a very long time in the United States.

On why many white people find Black Lives Matter hard to “grapple with”:

Nobody likes being told they're wrong.

And finally, the Rolling Stone interviewer, in a discussion mostly devoted to Springsteen's new book and his life, asked him “What do you think of Colin Kaepernick’s protests and the reaction to it?”

Athletics is a difficult place to make political statements. There was the Olympics in the Sixties, and obviously Muhammad Ali. But sports is such an escapist field. I think when politics or personal expression is injected, it rankles people more than in other fields. But we're in a time where there isn't any place where these issues can be excluded. I admire Kaepernick, but it's a very difficult field to be outspoken in.


• Fred Barbash, the editor of Morning Mix, is a former National Editor and London Bureau Chief for The Washington Post.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/10/06/bruce-springsteen-the-republic-is-under-siege-by-a-moron
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