Real American Hero

"You may not care about politics, but politics cares about you!" they bark. 

This banal retort generally follows the exasperated phrase "I don't care about politics." 

We live in an era of generalizations and blanket statements. This is where nuance goes to die. Of course we care about politics. We understand on a basic level the relationship between our personal prosperity and our political choices, but we as citizens don't always wish to explain or defend ourselves against an increasingly nosey and radicalized society. The same goes for musicians who choose not to insert political messages into their songs.

I've always seen political discourse as a creative dead end. I'm simply not interested in showing the world every card in my ideological deck, and you can't make me. 

This refusal to engage doesn't mean I'm not engaged, it merely means that my beliefs are none of your business, unless I wish them to be. That's the power of the individual, and thus the power of the artist. One day I just may be open to the possibility of putting my electoral affinities to music, but if and when is determined by me and me alone. I admit such a stance may get me called a fascist, a Nazi, or "literally Hitler", but everybody knows Hitler died in Argentina writing songs with Elvis, so he can't be all bad.