Taylor Swift's telling people to vote.
We used to like her so much better.
Sure she's probably just a hit maker and not a real artist but before her conforming to the herd mentality, we could pretend she was focused on her music, on her art.
"New Year's Day" gave us hope.
That's gone now.
The biggest group of adults in the US?
Non-voters as of 2016.
Wouldn't it be great if an artist or two could rise above?
Could be something more than a "whatever the crowd says" cow, slowly walking behind everyone else?
Or even better, someone with the guts to see the corruption in both major political parties and call it out?
Instead, we get a lot of dumb people telling us how to vote.
How to vote? Are you kidding us?
Did you notice that lately whenever people get together to demand their freedom there are new symbols of repression flying overhead, the helicopter, the symbol of 20th century repression. We are right now, at this moment in history, locked in a struggle for survival against a monster which has been created and which we are perpetuating if we allow it to exist; and that monster is the American society. Put that on television, you'll be arrested for free speech! If you strip away the facade and the false sense of freedom and social justice and comfort that lulls the White middle class into thinking they're safe, you can see the system for what it is: racist, oppressive, totalitarian and monstrous. And the only way that the system is going to change, particularly the courtroom system, is if we the people throw our weight entirely against it. We must denounce the unjust laws, we must denounce the unjust justice, and we must bring the system to a halt until it is again working for the people to protect the people. Rigged criminal trials for the purpose of wiping out anybody that the authorities don't want around, for the purpose of repressing political ideas and organizations, by eterminating the leaders and by intimidation, is nothing new in this country. If we are silent this time, we are the enemy and eventually, we are the victims.
That's Jane Fonda in 1970.
Jean Seberg was destroyed by the CIA for speaking out. Is that why Fonda now offers us the ridiculous choice of voting?
She once saw the system as it was and spoke out against it. Does she really think it ever changed?
Taylor, we liked you so much better when you offered no advice on how people should conduct their lives.