What's wrong with Donald? He's got just south of 8 bil in the bank, doesn't find ALL Mexicans objectionable, "some MIGHT be very good people" and has no hidden agenda, he says what he thinks. He seems a reflection of everything many in this crazy country admire, a narcisstic reflection of what they wish they were but will never be, think KIM. Sometimes it seems we're living in a fantasy while the REAL world is plotting it's next move.
Music and politics
A post yesterday about U2 prompted me to listen to them today. And one comment from yesterday got me to thinking. The author wrote dismissively that they should "keep their politics to themselves." (Those may or may not have been the exact words, but that gets to the point.) As I've been listening this afternoon, I've thought: I'm neither a born-again Christian nor a political leftie, but I do love this band. And then I thought further: If I listened only to bands or singer-songwriters whose politics were like mine, I surely wouldn't spin a whole lot of recordings. (For the record, I consider myself a radically pragmatic centrist with occasional libertarian leanings. Got any bands who'd fill that bill?) I care about the music, and not about what the people making that music happen to believe. Am I alone in this? Do others dismiss certain artists because of their politics -- or religion or the kind of car they drive or whatever else?
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