I was listening to classic rock, which is one of my favorite things to listen to, and some Bruce Springsteen came on. Springsteen, whose music I like, was one of the first musicians to come out with political positions a long, long time ago. What he said back then was enough to make me not want to listen to his music anymore. And I haven’t. When he came on, I remembered that right away and I turned to a different station.
It’s okay to have political positions. It’s okay to have political positions I don’t agree with. It’s okay for us to disagree and we can still be friends. We can discuss and converse. We can exchange ideas and learn from each other.
But it’s not okay for people like Springsteen and more recently like Taylor Swift (who I think is somewhat talented) to be making proclamations to us from their elevated positions. What they do is speak in platitudes. For example, the people of Hollywood and the entertainment industry tell us medical care should be free for everyone and they endorse the Medicare for everyone position.
The point is: there’s nothing wrong with that position. It’s a position. You can agree with it or not, as you wish, no big deal either way. But you shouldn’t be endorsing a position you, yourself, will never adhere to. Springsteen and all those high-rollers, the moment they get sick they are off to their high-cost private doctors and clinics, paying for it in cash no matter what the cost because whatever the cost is, it’s a drop in the bucket to them.
And so it goes.
The most classic examples are Al Gore and the Hollywood special people like DiCaprio who fly around in their private planes imploring us to adhere to their climate policies. You know who these people are. We all know who they are.
Same thing for the abortion issue. Everyone of those powerful-position females like Madonna if they ever wanted an abortion aren’t going to Planned Parenthood. They talk to us in platitudes knowing full well that their money affords them opportunity to do as they please regardless of what the laws are.
Netflix now has available George Carlin’s last HBO special. He’d just turned seventy. In that special he proclaims loud and clear that it’s all BS. You know what? Most of what we hear from our leaders and those we set up as role models is pure BS. Like Bernie who actually knows what he’s saying, they speak in platitudes making proclamations they have no personal intentions of ever having to follow or live by. It is all BS and they are full of it.
So don’t get any on you.
