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“This White House is destroying the American idea and our reputation around the world. To many, we are no longer looked upon as an often imperfect but strong defender of democracy standing for the global good. We are no longer the land of the free and the home of the brave. We are now, to many, America the reckless, unpredictable, predatory rogue nation. That is this administration’s and this president’s legacy. This is happening now.”
That was rock star Bruce Springsteen on his “land of hope and dreams tour” in Minnesota. That speech followed Springsteen’s performance at the “No Kings” rally on March 28, where Ilhan Omar’s “shero” Jane Fonda appeared.
“This past winter, federal troops brought death and terror to the streets of Minneapolis,” the 76-year-old rocker said. “The power and the solidarity of the people of Minneapolis, of Minnesota, was an inspiration to the entire country. Your strength and your commitment told us that this is still America. This reactionary nightmare and these invasions of American cities will not stand.” And so on, like a stump speech drafted by David Axelrod, which should come as no surprise. Despite “Born in the USA,” the wealthy rocker never supported the real America, especially when the nation deployed military force abroad.
On July 5, 1972, Springsteen played a benefit concert for leftist Democrat Sen. George McGovern, a proponent of disarmament. In late September, 1979, Springsteen joined other rock stars at the famous “No Nukes” concert at Madison Square Garden. On November 4, 1979, Iran’s Islamic regime, headed by the Ayatollah Khomeini, invaded the US embassy in Iran and held 52 Americans captive for 444 days. It’s hard to find any song or statement from Bruce Springsteen supporting the hostages or condemning the Islamic regime. For the rocker, the real threat was closer to home.
“I don’t know what you guys think about what happened last night, but I think it’s pretty frightening.” That was Springsteen at Arizona State, one day after Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter. Reagan called the Soviet Union an “evil empire,” and his view of the Cold War was “we win, they lose.” In 1984, Reagan referred to “the message of hope in the songs of a man so many young Americans admire – New Jersey’s own, Bruce Springsteen.” The rocker opposed use of the song for Reagan’s reelection campaign. The singer’s own political hero was Pete Seeger, known as the “strumming Stalinist” for good reason.
During the Stalin-Hitler Pact, Seeger’s Almanac Singers opposed American involvement against Nazi Germany. During the Vietnam war, Seeger revived the “peace” themes of the Pact, and all through the Cold War, remained a friend of the USSR. According to former Communist Ron Radosh, who took banjo lessons from Seeger, “Pete cannot seem to get past his old loyalty to the communists. He’s never sung a song about the totalitarianism of the Soviets or the horrible oppression under Castro. But he’s quick to criticize the United States.”
In 1997, Springsteen contributed to a tribute album for Pete Seeger. In 2004, Springsteen endorsed John Kerry for president. In 2006, “We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions,” was released and Springsteen toured with the Seeger Sessions Band. By 2008, the rocker was all-in for Obama who “speaks to the America I’ve envisioned in my music for the past 35 years.”
At voter registration rallies, Springsteen proclaimed, “I’ve spent most of my creative life measuring the distance between that American promise and American reality, and I believe Senator Obama has taken the measure of that distance in his own life and in his work.” And the banjo Bolshevik was not forgotten.
On May 3, 2009, Springsteen performed at Seeger’s 90th birthday celebration at Madison Square Garden. The rocker called Seeger “a living archive of America’s music and conscience, a testament of the power of song and culture to nudge history along, to push American events towards more humane and justified ends” and “a stealth dagger through the heart of our country’s illusions about itself.”
On January 18, 2009, two days before Obama’s inauguration, Springsteen joined Pete Seeger at the Lincoln memorial to sing “This Land Is Your Land.” The fundamental transformation of America was under way. One of the president’s first moves was to cancel missile defense for US allies Poland and the Czech Republic. That was a gift to Russia, and POTUS44 proved indulgent toward militant Islamists.
On November 5, 2009, the jihadist Nidal Hasan gunned down 13 Americans, including three women, at Fort Hood. For president Obama, it was “workplace violence,” not terrorism or even “gun violence.” No protest from Bruce Springsteen and no concert to honor victims such as Sgt. Alonzo Lunsford, who took seven bullets from the jihadist, or Pvt Francheska Velez, shot dead with her unborn child.
In 2011, POTUS44’s bombing campaign against Libya did not prompt the rocker to stage a concert in protest. If Obama ever did anything with which Springsteen disagreed it’s hard to know what it might be, and the strumming Stalinist remained a big fan. In 2012 Springsteen and Seeger again performed “This Land is Your Land,” to welcome Obama and Biden to the White House.
After Seeger’s death in 2014, Springsteen said “I lost a great friend and hero” and called Seeger “a very courageous freedom fighter.” For the composite character president, Seeger was “America’s tuning fork,” a man who “believed in the power of community – to stand up for what’s right, speak out against what’s wrong.”
“We stood with Hillary Clinton on the right side of history and a dream of a better America,” proclaimed Springsteen in 2016. “Hillary’s candidacy is based on intelligence, experience, preparation and an actual vision of America where everyone counts. Hillary sees an America where the issue of income distribution should be at the forefront of our national conversation.”
In 2020, Springsteen endorsed Joe Biden, proclaiming that the Delaware Democrat was running “to give working people the shot they deserve: an honest living for honest work. And a little peace of mind at the end of the day.” Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, with 13 Americans killed by a terrorist bomb, brought no public comment from Springsteen that journalists can find.
In 2024, Springsteen called Donald Trump “the most dangerous candidate in my lifetime.” The rocker supported Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, in his view candidates “committed to a vision of this country that respects and includes everyone, regardless of class, religion, race, political point of view or sexual identity,” and so on.
The Pete Seeger, Hillary Clinton and Obama groupie has always been a partisan leftist Democrat but there’s more to him. Bruce Springsteen boasts a net worth of $1.2 billion. For “the Boss,” America is rogue nation and capitalism is bad – except for all his money, his luxury homes, and so forth. As 2028 approaches maybe the billionaire rocker will throw his bullhorn in the ring.
Photo credit: Dharmabumstead at Wikimedia Commons.
A perfect example of what Reagan once said, “it’s not the Liberals [leftist] don’t know anything. It is that everything they know, is wrong.”
I was never able to see what Bruce’s talent might be. He admired highly talented Roy Orbison for a while. But Bruce’s main feature was voice volume. He mostly shouted. That is NOT music. He mostly hollered. Rather than pay to listen to him, i would pay to be able to NOT listen to his screaming.
Springsteen claimed in the early days (1973) that he only ever read one book, The Godfather. By 1975, when he became a superstar, the book was changed to “The Bible”. His first manager, Rolling Stone magazine hack Jon Landau, is credited with filling his mind with leftist books and articles, and he has been a lousy shill ever since. By 1999, he was back playing college theaters and not selling many records. After 9/11 he made “The Rising” and got back to stadiums. When it was nominated for record of the year, radio shock jock Don Imus quipped “Is he gonna thank Osama Bid Laden if he wins?” He has never been the sharpest crayon in the box.
“The Rising” like most of his songs is a damn ugly song. It must have Taken Springsteen all of five minutes to write it.
I had to laugh. In the 70s, I worked for an organization that worked with Juvenal delinquents. We subdivided the group into three categories: Lifers, borderline and scared straight. We found out that all lifers read or tried to read the Godfather. The 70s, gangs were disappearing, but the Godfather book and movie make crime appealing that it made a comeback. The curse all involved in this book and movie.
Hypocrisy is a common thread of the communist masses. Personal greed is the other.
So, so true. One only has to see what most of that ilk have done. Their pattern is very clear. They really want we underlings to ride around on a donkey while they are chauffered around in a limosine. They are actually mostly talentless. This is why so many of that ilk hate capitalists wherein, if one wishes to do so, simple very hard work and good thinking allow one to raise to the top.
Sprinklesteen should just shut the eff up. And he looks terrible.
Springsteen sounds like a fat bullfrog full of flies croaking on a lily pad in a stagnant pond and useful idiots spend hundreds to attend his noise pollution concerts. One of the all time Hall of Fame Hypocrites in the modern history of our country. By the way his resemblance to that nasty lesbian Ellen Degenerate is remarkable.
The years of extreme shouting have taken a toll on his voice box. He does NOT do music. He screams, hollers, yells, and. exudes self infactuation. Iow, he’s a pos.
How does someone like this reconcile being a billionaire with being an America hater, capitalism hater, and a socialist?
It’s probably stupidity combined with the cowardice of social conformity.
Springsteen thinks that he has to conform to the beliefs of his social circle to stay popular and relevant and that being anti-capitalism and being a Marxist makes him a cool Rock and Roll rebel.
He’s just a low IQ poser.
How do you reconcile being the America Hater you are.
I thought you had made a mistake & meant “millionaire”.
How wrong was I.
We both know Socialist stooge, Bernie Sanders removed “millionaire” from the naughty list (as he now is one).
But that means Bruce IS on the list of billionaire oppressors.
Will Bruce & Bernie now agree that Bruce himself must shovel 90% of his wealth to “the people” via the government?
(Afterall; he doesn’t NEED more than, oh say, $10 million, right?)
That would be 99%.
RE: Replacing the “M” with a “B”–
I will never forget J. Paul Getty’s quip: “A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if he were rich.”
Of course, a mere million today isn’t what it was then, when he said that!
Still stuck in the 60’s having never grown up to the realities faced by Americans as he lived his indulgent life in the confines of wealth.
He, like these other wealthy celebrities, knows nothing of what average Americans address daily or the real suffering of those living under the kind of ruler ship he supports.
Wearing jeans and a t-shirt doesn’t make you working class. If it did, he would know that the only means of people getting out of poverty is capitalism. Apparently, Bruce can’t read, if he could he need look no further than Argentina and the results of their new leader Javier Melei and the return of prosperity to that formerly socialist country.
This no talent out of tune monotone bum made one song I liked for a while – then it’s as mundane as is this bruce springsteen loser –
This dork wads will be the opening acts for the antichrist – wait for it –
He had one good line:
“I took a wrong turn and I just kept going.”
Pete Seeger had a hammer, and a sickle, too. The whole aim of leftist “peace movements” of his time was to disable the American armed forces. Much of the new “folk music” they generated served that purpose. At the time of Seeger’s environmental activism, the communist bloc had created the worst pollution in the whole wide world. Not a peep from him or his clique about that.
Excellent points.
Bruce has never had a real job. He has always worked in show business. It shows in his music. His skill is marketing. He once claimed that that he made $25 an night playing the clubs in Atlantic city. In 1973, I was making $20 a day and everybody thought I was making big bucks. Right from the beginning he was making more than the average A merican.
Springsteen means jumping white grape. He is now in the raisin phase with no raison d’etre.
Every time I hear Springsteen speak, I think of Dunning and Kruger. He has a little knowledge of the world, and he is very confident that he knows all there is to know.
Pop music is generally bad for you, like soda pop.
Had to laugh when teeny-tiny Brucie fell onstage. Poor little billionaire was too weak to get up without help and just lay there helpless and pitiable. Sometimes it’s nice to be rich.
Springsteen’s music s*cks. Only musically illiterate Democrats listen to it. Couldn’t ‘Front’ for the “Monkees”. Jerry Garcia was TEN TIMES a better Guitar player, and left a legacy of music behind, eclipsed only by Mozart.
Harry Chapin would be proud of Springsteen and the similar
cabal …