In a brand new interview with NME, guitarist Tom Morello slammed President Trump.
He said:
“I think that the symptoms of people feeling left behind by the global economy, Donald Trump provides an easy — and not just Donald Trump; I think it’s Brexit as well, and in Brazil, there’s a right-wing, populist fascist in power,”
“People who are left behind by the neoliberal policies — white working-class people, generally — are susceptible to demagogues who use racism and anti-immigration sentiment to stir them up so they don’t focus on what the real problem is, which is a system that underserves the planet. The planet who own and run the planet don’t deserve to, and they’re running it into the ground. They’re creating a miserable environmental state of affairs and economic state of affairs for a lot of people.
Now, one of the reasons why we’ve been playing music for as long as we have is to provide an alternative set of ideals — like progressive politics, solidarity, environmental sanity, anti-racism, anti-fascism — as another way to deal with the inequities of life, rather than listening to some orange-faced demagogue saying it’s the Muslims’ fault, it’s the Mexicans’ fault. Trust me, it’s not. It’s his f*cking fault. [Laughs]”
Drummer Brad Wilk added:
“And at the end of the day, it’s not gonna even matter if we don’t get the environment right. It’s not gonna matter who it is. By 2028, they said all the glaciers in India are gonna be gone. So think about that, and think about that happening all around the world. We’re not gonna be able to survive that. It’s gonna be a horrific situation. So we should do something soon.”
Continued Tom:
“The cornerstone message of all the bands we’ve been in is that the world is not going to change itself; that is up to you. And the people who have changed the world in progressive, radical or even revolutionary ways throughout history have been people that had no more money, courage, power, influence or creativity than anybody watching or listening to this right now. So get off your a*s and do it.”
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Tom Morello should STFU and play the guitar ,when he was with Rage didnt he rock a “che Guervara” tshirt ?? che was a racist ,murderer, communist, so please stfu
That’s the best you’ve got? He has an intelligent well thought out response to an interview questions and you bring up a t-shirt he may or may not have worn a long time ago and say STFU and play guitar? Maybe you should read more, and talk less. Or at least come up with something better than a t-shirt for your argument next time haha
And Putin and Peng are communist dictators that are embraced by Trump and his administration. Doesn’t the First Ammendment provide for Freedom of Speech? I don’t agree with the far right but I don’t agree with the Far Left either.
“By 2028, they said all the glaciers in India are gonna be gone. ”
I remember a year ago Glacier National Park had to remove a sign that said all the glaciers would be gone by the year 2020. It has funny how quickly the left has stolen the title of “doomsdayers” from the right. Same goes for prying into people’s life and trying to force a hive mentality (AKA cancel culture.) The left is nothing more than a group that panders to people who think one or more of a flurry of issues (climate change, sexism, racism, white supremacy, etc.) are the biggest problems facing the world. But hey, it gets them votes I guess. Take real issues, magnify them by a million, actually make the problems worse in the meantime by dividing us with them, get people stirred up, then promise to solve problems that no government party can solve because they are things that can’t be legislated away. Repeat every 2-4 years. And that’s how we get democrats.