R.I.P. Rush: former rock band’s song is used in a Walmart commercial.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

41. Libertarian crap is often a naive expression of someone wanting to do good things.

That's the attractive part of the libertarian mindset. Then you grow up and understand that this pure idealism doesn't scale in the real world. I will freely admit that in my early 20s, I read and enjoyed Atlas Shrugged, and I know I'm not the only liberal to have done so. People grow up. People change. This was 40 years ago, and Rush's epic hero's return phase ended in about 1979. They're different people now, like all of us are.

Aside from that, Rush has never been very overtly political. Their political expression was always in the abstract. And they're Canadian. I don't believe they ever particularly cared whether their US fans were Democrat, Republican, or Libertarian. By the same token, I'm sure they don't care that their rabid Brazilian fans are in large part rabid leftists. And why should they? They still sing a fairly progressive set list, none of it right wing, so why should they care about the political affiliation of their fan base? Canadian bands aren't required to vet their music with the DNC.