I think the Democratic Party has picked a lot of the wrong candidates, the kind that Middle America, or people who are more down the middle and more rational, can’t side with. I think that’s been the problem.

Meaning of the quote

Danzig believes the Democratic Party has chosen candidates that people in the middle or who are more reasonable cannot support. He thinks this has been a problem for the Democratic Party.

About Glenn Danzig

Glenn Danzig, the iconic American singer, songwriter, and musician, is the founder of the influential rock bands Misfits, Samhain, and Danzig. His diverse musical career has spanned punk rock, heavy metal, and various other genres, earning him recognition as one of the greatest singers of all time.

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It’s not like that anymore really, but back in the day, nobody would let the Misfits open up for them, not the Ramones, not the Cramps, nobody.

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I just told you I wasn’t a Satanist.

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We still have pretty good sales, especially for the art books.

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We probably put about four or five comic books out a year and probably about two or three art books and various trade paperbacks – maybe four or five of those a year – and that’s what we do now.

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In Japan, they have TV sets in cars right now, where you can punch up traffic routes, weather, everything! You can get Internet access already in cars in Japan, so within the next 2 to 3 years it’s gonna be so crazy!

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Of course, I started really being a comics fan with the underground stuff in the ’70s.

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Until the contract is signed, nothing is real.

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Yeah, now we publish whenever we feel like it.

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We’ve had a lot of agencies try and sabotage our tour.

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But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story.

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I wish the Libertarian Party would get more play in the media but they don’t.

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Wars have always started over religion.

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I think the key to being a journalist is getting your subject to feel comfortable enough to talk about stuff they want to talk about and the stuff they like and don’t like, and still feel comfortable about it.

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So writing a song is much harder than doing a classical piece for me, because in a classical piece, I can just let the mood dictate what’s going to happen.

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I was bringing my attitude as a regular person ’cause this is my attitude.

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I know they are going to be doing a box set in Europe of Danzig 5 and 6 and some other stuff.

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It’s okay for Christians throughout centuries to exterminate races and for their priests to rape little kids throughout decades, but trying to give the people the power to think and be individual, that’s evil?

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