Bruce Springsteen scorns blessings of being born in the U.S.A.

OPINION:

Bruce Springsteen, an aging rocker who rose to fame on songs that, on surface and to the uninformed, anyway, seemed to scream “I Love America,” jetted off to Manchester, United Kingdom, and railed against President Donald Trump as “unfit” for office, as  “incompetent,” as “treasonous.”

Another leftist slams America, even while rising to fame and glory because of America. Yawn.

The socialist-slash-communist rag The Nation immediately wrote, “This Is the Bruce We’ve Been Waiting For.”

Nope. Not even close.

Springsteen has always couched his criticisms of America in songs that seemed to scream patriotism. “Born in the U.S.A.,” one of his signature hits that appears at first glance about national pride, is actually about the disillusionment of an American soldier returning from Vietnam, to a nation of people who condemn the military action.

But it’s one thing to pen songs pointing to the ironies, hypocrisies, deceptions and failures of U.S. government.

It’s another thing entirely to make millions and millions and even more millions of dollars in the free market sanctuary called America, travel the nation and collect fame and fortune via an identity that is pure Americanism, i.e., living the life of a rock star, and then, when old age sets in and an end of career peeks above the horizon, scurry overseas to trash-talk the very nation that’s given so much personal greatness — that’s bestowed so many personal blessings — that’s rewarded richly in oh so many ways.

Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.

“Tonight we ask all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experiment to rise with us, raise your voice against authoritarianism and let freedom ring,” Springsteen said, to the concert crowd.

“There’s some very weird, strange and dangerous s— going on out there [in America] right now,” Springsteen also said.

“In America, they are persecuting people for using their right to free speech and voicing their dissent. This is happening now,” Springsteen also said.

It’s a remarkable viewpoint given the years of COVID and Joe Biden’s presidency where all narratives that countered the government-stamped and Big Pharma dictates were blotted from social media.

Leftists always confuse law and order with crime and disorder. Just because Trump is enforcing border controls and his team is arresting and deporting law-breaking illegals doesn’t mean he’s persecuting innocents. 

“In my country, they’re taking sadistic pleasure in the pain they inflict on loyal American workers,” Springsteen said.

“They are defunding American universities that won’t bow down to their ideological demands,” Springsteen said.

“They are removing residents off American streets and, without due process of law, are deporting them to foreign detention centers and prisons,” Springsteen said.

He’s talking about Trump’s tariff war, aimed at equalizing the playing field and building an economy that puts America first. He’s talking about Team Trump shutting down antisemitic displays of violence against Jews on America’s college campuses. He’s talking about this White House using existing laws to remove savage thugs, sex and drug traffickers and gang members from America’s streets, mostly illegals, and sending them to prisons in their own countries — where they belong.

It may sound good to a crowd of concert-goers who just want to rock, and who love the rebel nature of his remarks without understanding the nonsense of his words. It may resonate with the aging 1960s political activists who pine for the glory days of their “down with the man” protests. 

But America is tired of millionaire types who pretend they speak for the little people. American conservatives especially are tired of the elitism of millionaire types who fail to recognize and respect the fact that it’s conservative principles, it’s MAGA and Trump policies, that pave the way for their luxurious lifestyles, and that it’s Democrats and their socialist-slash-Marxist ways that destroy both freedoms and prosperity.

Springsteen should just shut up and sing.

• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “God-Given Or Bust: Defeating Marxism and Saving America With Biblical Truths,” is available by clicking HERE.