Collective mass denial - Bob Dylan’s America

From the archives: Peter talks about Bob’s comments on race in the USA and takes a deeper dive into recent American politics.

These are a collection of comments Peter made about American politics over the years and about Bob Dylan, centred initially around racism in the USA and the Civil War. We should heed his words, especially now. He died before Biden was elected, but his words could equally apply to this moment, and his cynicism, could equally apply to Biden, Harris and Trump. We should be careful to think things will change whoever wins. Although it’s clear one choice is far more worrying than the other, time and again Democrats let the American people down. It’s not good enough to just be a lesser evil. These conversational comments should not be judged in the same context as his written essays.

- Trev Gibb