Celebrities on both sides of American politics.
It's not easy being a conservative in the US these days, especially if you make your living in the liberal arts world. The majority of American musicians and actors openly support the Democratic presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, in the current election campaign, but there are still those who agree to stand up against the liberal mainstream, Donald Trump, and Republican values.
Singer Taylor Swift has tens of millions of followers on social media, so her opinion has a serious community-shaping power. Raised in a Republican family in Tennessee, Swift also shared her opinion on Tuesday night, after the televised debate between the US presidential candidates, when she issued a statement in which she assured Kamala Harris of her support.
The last time Taylor Swift made her political decision clear was in 2018, when she took to Instagram to support the Democrats of her native Tennessee in the local Senate election.
The singer did not like the ideas of the Republican candidate for women's rights and the rights of the LGBTQ community. Then came the hard times, as chronicled in the Netflix documentary Miss Americana, as Swift faced the possibility of losing a significant portion of her fans in Tennessee, who had stuck with her since she was a teenager (when little Taylor was still singing country music).
“These are not your father's kind of Republicans,” Swift told the cameras. "I have to be on the good side of history."
"I haven't made my political views public before, but because of what has happened in my life and in the world over the last two years, I now see it very differently," he wrote in 2018.
Donald Trump responded to this in an interview: "Let's just say I like his music about 25 percent less than I did before."
While many American musicians declare themselves supporters of the Democrats - for example Alicia Keys, dreadlocked rocker Lenny Kravitz or Red Hot Chili Peppers singer Anthony Kiedis -
there are also those who are on the conservative side.
Examples include the rapper Kanye West, who previously supported Donald Trump several times, Kid Rock, who plays crushing Midwest rock music, or the Californian rock band Five Finger Death Punch, whose founding member is the guitarist Zoltán Báthory, who immigrated to the United States from Hungary in 2005.
From the rap genre, this also includes the eccentric member of Public Enemy, formed in the late 1980s, Flavor Flav, who wears wall clocks of various sizes around his neck, who accepts his conservative principles despite the fact that his fellow musician, Chuck D., expelled him from the band in 2020 citing their different political views. .
Five-time Oscar winner and two-time Palme d'Or award-winning actor-director Clint Eastwood is a registered Republican in California and supported Richard Nixon's election campaign in 1968. At the same time, he declares himself a libertarian.
His outlook on life is simple: "Everyone leaves the other alone!"
On August 30, 2012, at the Republican Party's four-day presidential candidate rally held in Tampa, Florida, he mocked former US President Barack Obama in a fifteen-hour speech. Eastwood communicated with an empty chair during the speech, whom he called the President.
"I saw the empty chair that was put there for me to sit on. This made me think of having a conversation with the president as if he were just sitting there. I wanted to say three things: that not everyone in Hollywood is left-wing, that Obama has broken many of his promises, and that a president who doesn't do a good job needs to be replaced. At that, the Democrats thought I had become senile, and the Republicans were sure of it," he later said about the incident.
And finally, one more interesting fact: when the music of the two-time Grammy award-winning actor and country singer Billy Ray Cyrus was regularly played during the entrances and exits of Donald Trump at the events of the Republican Party, not many people thought that his daughter Miley Cyrus, born in 1992, would support the candidates of the Democratic Party to support.
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