So I'm browsing the headlines in AOL News this morning and come across a piece about Bruce Springsteen and his battle with depression. Having suffered from depression at one time in my life, I usually take a peek at such pieces to get a fellow sufferer's take on an absolutely soul crushing illness. As I get to the end I scroll a little too far and end up at the comments section of the piece (which was also a plug for his upcoming memoir, entitled appropriately enough, Born to Run), which I don't usually read because the world is full of far too many deliriously dumb people and it turns out that republicans can't even let a puff piece hawking a book go by without turning it into a racist hatefest because Springsteen exercised his right as an American and supported Barack Obama not once, but twice, for the Presidency.
For fuck's sake, Francis, these people really need to get a fucking life--anybody paying attention knows that Springsteen has made his political affiliations very public at least since his Nebraska LP which Springsteen himself said was a reaction to the damage he saw Ronald Reagan doing to America's working class (and was also inspired by A People's History of the United States by the democratic socialist historian Howard Zinn).
Besides, it's not as if republicans don't have their own celebrities to turn to. Don't like Springsteen's politics? You can always listen to "Wango Tango" by Ted Nugent or watch reruns of Scott Baio's Charles in Charge.
And don't be pissed at Democrats because our celebrities are American icons and yours are such herorrhoidal lame-asses.
Peace,
emaycee
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