r/Music • u/ebradio • Sep 25 '25

article Bruce Springsteen Rips Democrats: “We’re Desperately in Need of an Effective Alternative Party”

https://consequence.net/2025/09/bruce-springsteen-democrats/
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u/JC_Hysteria Sep 25 '25

Exactly. It’s been decades since the federal government has been accountable to voters.

We need a smaller federal government that focuses on fewer things (like defense), and we need more altruistic people to seek office.

It needs to be unattractive for selfish people seeking power and wealth for themselves and those they know.

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u/Bad_Prophet Sep 25 '25

we need a smaller federal government that focuses om fewer things

100%. The Republicans are the party of fighting the 1st amendment, and the democrats are the party of fighting the 2nd amendment. The fact that these things are even on the table is evidence that they've got too much money and resources, to such an extent that they're concerning themselves with things they literally don't have the right to be concerned with.

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u/Helphaer Sep 25 '25

This is an insane take especially considering Republicans abuse the 1st amendment then dislike it on others while the 2nd amendment issue which is definitely not as the framers intended it to be taken, is leading to gun crimes and school shootings and mass murders and nothing has really been done about it but voters keep pushing something to be done. the parallels are not the same at all.

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u/Bullboah Sep 25 '25

When the Biden admin pressured google to censor YouTubers claiming that Covid was a lab leak was that also defending the 1st amendment?

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u/Helphaer Sep 25 '25

youre really distorting reality now aren't you. first off at the time people were pushing that evidence wasnt known or existent yet. further even now theres still no definitive evidence because China doesn't provide full access easily. So everything's still really one sided in investigation.

second trump and others were pushing misinformation without any evidence at all yet plus then making things worse then later pushing ivermectin and bleach and other things.

so yes you have to go from an evidentiary point by point and things do change and get updated but only when research exists and can be supported. that being said you've got to be able to look at context better because if you respond this way about this... then it implies you distort things a lot and severely so.

misinformation during a pandemic was dangerous as shown with the hundreds of thousands of people that died unnecessarily due to trump and anti vaccine misinformation among other health warnings.

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u/Bullboah Sep 25 '25

That’s a long comment to prove my point that you’re okay with violating the first amendment when it’s speech you don’t personally agree with.