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Old 08-08-2017, 05:22 PM
 
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Actor and activist James Cromwell insists that Hollywood actors and actresses must get more involved in politics and rails against the American justice system and President Donald Trump in an interview released this week.
“Martin Sheen would do it, Ed Asner would do it. There are a lot of people if push came to shove,” Cromwell said in an extensive interview with the Daily Mail. “This community has got to get more engaged. This community has got to get more political. More than our survival as an industry, our appropriateness is at stake. What’s really at stake is our humanity and all sentient life.”

In a rant against Trump, Cromwell called the president an “idiot” and said politics won’t matter if the planet is destroyed by climate change and our dependence on fossil fuels.

“It’s very easy to vilify an idiot who happens to be the President of the United States, but it doesn’t solve the problem,” the Oscar-nominated actor said. “We have to educate people. We have to educate people on the right.”

“We can’t demonize people because of their political stance. We have to say: “Look, it won’t matter ultimately whether you’re Republican, radical right, or progressive,” he added. “All that will matter is that we’re able to drink the water, breathe the air, live on the land. That’s what’s threatened.”

The American Horror Story: Asylum star also said he now understands the type of racal profiling a “privileged white person” only learns about after they are imprisoned.

‘I had a little bit of privilege, because I’m a celebrity, so they can’t dehumanize me,” he said. “They have to acknowledge my celebrity, because if I get screwed over, if I get beaten, in the general population it looks really bad in the press,” the actor said of his prison stay



James Cromwell: Hollywood Stars Must Get 'More Political' to Save Humanity




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Old 08-08-2017, 05:25 PM
 
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Old 08-08-2017, 05:28 PM
 
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I cannot think of anything that would do my heart more good than to see mr. cromwells industry destroyed. I mean that with every fiber of my being.
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Old 08-08-2017, 05:29 PM
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C'mon CGI!
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Old 08-08-2017, 05:34 PM
 
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It is completely over some people's heads that we already have not one, but two entertainment celebrities as Presidents.

Hollywood needs to get political not simply to save humanity, but because it's about time the liberals embrace entertainer politicians like the right-wingers do.

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Old 08-08-2017, 05:36 PM
 
Location: In the reddest part of the bluest state
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He has a right to his opinion. Problem you have is that his fame gets his opinion out to hundreds of thousands of people while you and I are stuck here flapping our gums in C-D. Boo Hoo
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Old 08-08-2017, 05:39 PM
 
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Hollywood is the very last place that I would look to when I look for someone to "save" humanity. Have you seen the number of degenerates in Hollywood? Many of those people are glorified trailer trash. The fact that anyone looks up to them as some kind of omnipotent beings is pathetic.
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Old 08-08-2017, 05:49 PM
 
Location: Free From The Oppressive State
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He has a right to his opinion. Problem you have is that his fame gets his opinion out to hundreds of thousands of people while you and I are stuck here flapping our gums in C-D. Boo Hoo
If Hollywood's message was more powerful than ours, we'd have Hillary as president right now. Just because thousands to millions hear what you say doesn't mean that they care about what you say or agree with you.
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Old 08-08-2017, 05:51 PM
 
Location: In the reddest part of the bluest state
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If Hollywood's message was more powerful than ours, we'd have Hillary as president right now. Just because thousands to millions hear what you say doesn't mean that they care about what you say or agree with you.
I don't disagree, so why the OP? I saw two millennials on cell phones and I am all filled up on outrage for today.
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Old 08-08-2017, 05:54 PM
 
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Hollywood seems to be sinking into a "bunker mentality", which is fine with me!
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