{"id":975529,"date":"2020-03-09T13:07:32","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T19:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=964573"},"modified":"2020-03-09T13:07:32","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T19:07:32","slug":"neil-young-endorses-bernie-sanders-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/neil-young-endorses-bernie-sanders-for-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Young Endorses Bernie Sanders for President"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Neil Young<\/a> has made no secret of his deep respect and admiration for Bernie Sanders<\/a> over the past few months, and this weekend he wrote a long, glowing endorsement<\/a> of the Vermont senator on his website and encouraged his fans to vote for him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI support Bernie because I listen to what he says,\u201d he writes. \u201cEvery point he makes is what I believe in. Every one. In 2016, if Bernie had run instead of Hillary Clinton, I think we would not have the incompetent mess we have now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Young recently became a naturalized U.S. citizen even though he\u2019s lived in the country for well over 50 years. \u201cOutside the courthouse, after I was naturalized (funny word for it), there was a Democrat Party Registration booth,\u201d he writes. \u201cI registered. My first error as a U.S. citizen will be corrected now. I am registering Independent. The wheels are in motion. I don\u2019t trust the DNC because I think the DNC is pushing their own agenda over the good of the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

He goes on to rip into Facebook. \u201cFacebook is full of bots and trolls,\u201d he writes. \u201cIt\u2019s not America<\/em>. Forget social media. Ignore it and replace it with truth<\/em>. I don\u2019t believe the Facebook social media cesspool of lies, disinformation from other counties and misleading comments. I believe Bernie Sanders. I think Bernie Sanders is the Real Deal.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cStand with Bernie Sanders,\u201d he writes later. \u201cStand for the workers, stand for the teachers, stand for the students, stand up for Climate Justice. Stand<\/em> for higher taxes on the super-rich to pay for all love the above! Stand for the American Future. Stand with Bernie Sanders.\u201d<\/p>\n

Young\u2019s former CSNY bandmate David Crosby is also a Sanders supporter. According to a recent Tweet,<\/a> Crosby reached out to Young about a possible CSNY reunion concert to support Bernie. \u201cI asked Neil but I got no answer at all,\u201d Crosby wrote on March 3rd. \u201cDead air. So my hopes for that are on hold, painfully.\u201d<\/p>\n

Young does plan on touring America arenas with Crazy Horse in the very near future. Once again, Nils Lofgren will be taking the place of Crazy Horse guitarist Frank \u201cPoncho\u201d Sampedro. \u201cPoncho does not want to play,\u201d Young recently wrote in response to a fan letter. \u201cHe has never wavered. We still want to play. I love Nils. When Nils goes back out with Bruce [Springsteen] again, we will not stop. We have a plan.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Neil Young has made no secret of his deep respect and admiration for Bernie Sanders over the past few months, and this weekend he wrote a long, glowing endorsement of the Vermont senator on his website and encouraged his fans to vote for him. \u201cI support Bernie because I listen to what he says,\u201d he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-975529","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-09 16:11:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}