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Unity And Resistance Is A Strong American Trait.

I Don't Believe That The Democratic Party Has Anything To Do With The Left. We Have Two Political Parties In The Us: A Right Wing Party And A Right Centrist Party. That's The Democrats. I Laugh When People Describe Barack Obama As A Socialist President. As A Socialist Musician, I'll Tell You When We Have A Socialist President. We Don't Have One Now, Not Even Close.

There Are Literally Billions Of People On The Planet Who Live In An Unimaginable Poverty That's Not In Any Way Different From The Plight Of The People In Orchid. And You Can't Have The Splendor Of Rodeo Drive Without The Sweatshops Of Indonesia; Those Two Things Go Hand In Hand.

What Draws People To The Instrument Is The Love For Guitar Players That Play A Certain Way. I Mean, Even Though It Wasn't Intentional, It Was Hard To Avoid Copying Eddie Van Halen. He Was Basically The *bleep* Back Then.

My Take Is That There's Two Ways To Approach History. You Sit In Your Armchair And You Watch It On The News And You Return To Your Playstation. Or You Get Out In The Streets And You Make It. Like, When Those Supreme Court Justices, You Know, Legalize Desegregation, It Wasn't Due To Their Infinite Wisdom. It's Because People Whose Names You Do Not Read About In History Books, People Whose Faces You Will Never See, Were The Ones Who Struggled And Sacrificed, Sometimes Gave Their Lives, To Make This Country A More Equal One. When, It's Like Those People Don't Make History, It's Us.