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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHas Susan Sarandon addressed the SCOTUS' support for gutting voting rights?
Susan Sarandon argued that it would be better if Trump defeated Hillary Clinton, because this would bring the Revolution to America faster.
Now we have a Supreme Court dominated by racist judges poised to make it very difficult for minorities to vote.
Has Susan Sarandon revisited her comment, considering that this thread to Democracy wouldn't have occurred had Hillary Clinton been elected? Is the gutting of civil rights part of her "revolution"?
https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/29/politics/susan-sarandon-donald-trump-hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders/index.html
Some people feel that Donald Trump will bring the revolution immediately, if he gets in. Then things will really, you know, explode, Sarandon said, referring to the political revolution Sanders preaches about on the trail.
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Hayes clarified that Sarandon was referring to the Marxist concept of revolution, in that Trump would create such a split in America that the upheaval would result in dramatic change.
That was 8 years ago.
50 Shades Of Blue
(11,345 posts)CentralMass
(16,909 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)"Millionares & Billionares"
Paladin
(32,354 posts)I don't even watch her movies anymore, given the damage she did.
ornotna
(11,436 posts)PatSeg
(52,580 posts)Welcome to DU!
Autumn
(48,869 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(176,794 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)Which big dirty corporation has SS benefitted monetarily from?
It's no wonder she's been fighting against the very Party that was advocating years ago, against enviro & planet & animal regulations that would have cut into SS's profiteering.
She has been so stinkin obvious all along.
She can use her celebrity to say anything.
The proof of her slight is in her profiteering.
And we all know that Trump's tax benes never hurt people like millionare SS at all.
harumph
(3,127 posts)she mistakenly considers herself politically astute ... she absurdly conflated the two
parties (as did Greenwald), and is now too arrogant to admit it. Hence, she digs in. Sad to see really - I enjoyed her in the 94 version of
Little Women.
roamer65
(37,852 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Seriously. Susan who?
Sheesh. Who cares?
If you think you'll stir up trouble by mentioning her, be aware we have two factions here. Those who aren't interested, and those who are obsessed with an irrelevant idiot.
dsc
(53,341 posts)and are therefore in this mess, which, it should be noted, she has shown precisely zero sings of attempting to get us out of.
Mike 03
(18,690 posts)Not "obsessed". Not "I don't care."
She was promulgating a talking point that was often repeated: Let it burn to the ground and it will reconfigure itself into something better.
We should remember that, because we'll hear it again, and because it didn't happen in Russia in 1917 or in America in 2016 and it never happens in real life. But we'll hear it again from some surprising people the next time we have a lunatic running against a Dem candidate some folks think is not far left enough.
SeattleVet
(5,858 posts)I thought that she was very good in her first film, 'Joe', with Peter Boyle. Saw it when it came out and she made an good impression on me. I thought she's be going places.
I think she peaked in her second film, 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show'.
What she needs now is a fast slide into obscurity.
ibegurpard
(17,077 posts)She is not in any policy-making positions. She's an actress. If you are that angry with her feel free to boycott her movies and shows.
Her opinion is of no interest to me.
Mike 03
(18,690 posts)Should her incredible irresponsibility and stupidity change my opinion of her stupendous performance in Dead Man Walking?
StevieM
(10,578 posts)To be fair, we have been gradually moving down that road for a long time.
The signature moment in the movement toward fascism happened in 1994 when a Republican-controlled judicial panel, led by David Sentelle, replaced the independent council investigating Whitewater with Ken Starr.
