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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSpringsteen lays it out. What we've lost. What we must get back.
This election has made me cry more than just about anything ever.
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Springsteen lays it out. What we've lost. What we must get back. (Original Post)
nolabear
Oct 2020
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SharonClark
(10,005 posts)1. Exactly how most of us feel.
I remember a President who invited BB King and Mick Jagger to perform at the White House, a President who sang Amazing Grace at a funeral. and a President who reads Marilyn Robinson and calls her a friend.
I wish this message would play during a couple of football games. Maybe some people would snap out of their acceptance that the trump years are normal. Springsteen clearly says theyre arent.
nolabear
(41,915 posts)3. It's so barren. Nothing that feeds the soul.
Interesting in a campaignand its all a campaignbuilt purely on emotion. But he uses it, rather that feeling it or showing it.
misanthrope
(7,405 posts)4. "At football games"? It wouldn't matter
They relegated Springsteen to the "shut up and play" group way many, many years ago.
brush
(53,475 posts)2. Yes sir. Bruce speaks for me. Such a way with words that just get into you.
malaise
(267,823 posts)5. The Boss speaks for me
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lindysalsagal
(20,444 posts)6. Whispering Truth To Power. Our power.
Hekate
(90,202 posts)7. Breathtaking -- he says it like a prayer. Like a holy prayer.