Jeff Pilson says that Donald Trump is “a dangerous man” whose vitriolic and divisive rhetoric could ignite another American civil war.
An acclaimed producer and a veteran bassist who has played with DIO, FOREIGNER, DOKKEN and T&N, Pilson made his comments during a recent interview with Yesterdaze News to promote FOREIGNER‘s ongoing fortieth-anniversary tour.
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Asked what he thinks needs to be done to heal our nation and bring us all back together, Pilson said (hear audio below): “I’m scared right now. I’m very, very concerned. I think the divide has never been more clear and more… I think the rhetoric has never been worse. I think the lack of understanding between sides has never been more… I don’t think it’s ever been this big a gap. I think it’s really sad [and] really dangerous.
“Putting ideology and left-or-right, Democrat-Republican aside, putting all that stuff aside, I’m afraid I just have a lot of fear and skepticism about our commander-in-chief, who I just think is potentially — I hope I’m wrong — but I think he’s a dangerous man,” he continued.
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Aa a father of a thirteen-year-old daughter, Pilson said that he is “thinking about the future,” wanting “her to have the opportunities that I’ve had, and I see a lot of those opportunities going away. And I understand people being fed up with the system — I really get that — and I understand people being disappointed with how things have worked for a long time. But I think we need to find a civil way of dealing with this, because otherwise… I mean, if you look at history, this is the kind of thing that leads to huge unrest and, in the worst-case scenario, civil war.
“I guess I’m just saying, time to be reasonable, time for people to cast their… Let’s stop all this bullcrap of bickering and whatnot.”
According to Pilson, it would help if “we could get money out of politics; I think that’s become very, very dangerous,” he said. “I wish people had an incentive to work together. Right now, the way the system is set up, people don’t have incentives to work together, because the politics have gotten so screwed up by money and everything and have been pushed to the extremes.
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“It’s time to come to the center, find some solutions, work together, stop the rhetoric. We’ve done it before, [and] we can do it again,” he said.
Jeff added that, as a touring musician, he frequently travels internationally, “and most of the people I see overseas are scared to death of the United States right now,” he said. “They’re worried, and I understand that. I am too. I think we’re at a very, very dangerous place right now.
“Again, this has nothing to do with left or right or anything like that, I just think that Trump is dangerous and I think he’s a adding a poison to the mix that is so toxic and so horrifying that unless everybody else gets reasonable and pulls it together, we could be heading down a very dangerous path,” he reiterated.
Via Blabbermouth.com