Joan Baez warns Americans not to lose their
The popular icon and lifelong activist, Joan Baez, once again criticizes President Donald Trump and the “cruelty” of his administration, saying that social change requires courage to risk something, but that this perspective will only become “more scary” for Americans as time passes.
Báez talked about “the best people with Nicolle Wallace”, a podcast organized by the host holder of MSNBC, who said that Báez was arrested in his youth for war activism against Vietnam and asked him how that was compared to the present.
“Well, I went to jail twice, and everything went to help and encourage the resistance of the draft, but you know, we had our lawyers, we had the call, we made the families come to visit, we had our medicine,” Báez said. “And at this time … the first order of the day for this group of people is cruelty.”
“AND [they] Not only do you put people in cages, [they] I love putting people in cages, “he added.” And that is what is afraid in a way that was not afraid at the time. “
“I have not experienced anything like this in my life,” Báez said about the current political climate, noting that none of his companions of the sixties and seventies could have imagined “this strange science fiction film” of America today.
The Trump administration has used tariffs and demands to press world leaders and corporations to comply with. Technological leaders have inclined the knee, while Trump’s critics have been expelled from their work.
When asked about the importance of risking in the middle of the current climate of fear and denial, Báez said: “I have said that social change cannot happen until someone is willing to risk. And I think that. And I think it will become more scary and scary to risk.”
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Wallace reflected on why Americans think that “someone else” will save the United States or why business leaders are not fighting harder, even if only to save their results, since “there is no autocracy in the world where the economy is thriving.”
Báez seemed to refer to former Silicon Valley Curtis Yarvin programmer, who according to reports argued that democracy should be abolished in favor of a so -called “national CEO.”
“The first thing that comes to mind is one of Elon Musk’s small puppets on television, saying: ‘We have to overcome this dictator phobia,” he said. “And that is what is really evolving now. People are overcoming their dictator phobia.”
Then, the singer shared a gloomy but potentially inspiring anecdote about what it really means to live in a dictatorship.
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“I have a friend, a Turkish friend, close friend,” Báez said. “She has been living in a dictatorship forever. “
She continued: “She said: ‘Because I’m very intelligent.’ I’m not so intelligent, but she has walked that line.