Barbra Streisand: A strong advocate for democracy

Besides being a renowned artist and a much-loved musician with a career spanning decades, Barbra Streisand is also an outspoken Democrat who has slammed former President Donald Trump publicly over the years.

Speaking to host Stephen Colbert in 2023, Streisand said, “I can’t live in this country if he becomes president,” to what Colbert asked where would she possibly move. “Probably England, I like England,” she answered.

Streisand made a similar statement back in 2016 while speaking to Australian journalist Michael Usher. “I’m either coming to your country, if you’ll let me in, or Canada,” she told him ahead of the elections that Trump won. But like other celebrities who had, and likely still have, the same opinion of Trump, Streisand stayed in the States and decided to channel her resistance towards Trump’s government through her music.

Releasing her album Walls in 2018, she used it as a means to point to Trump’s despotic leadership.

Standing against lies and deception, something she’s convinced the business mogul represents, she she expressed her outrage through her music with pieces such as Don’t Lie to Me.

In her book My name is Barbra, she spoke of her support for Hillary Clinton and called Trump “a liar.”

She further questioned the role of artists in the world of politics, expressing that they should serve as “a country’s conscience.”

“Their work gives us a reflection of the times, and sometimes they challenge us to see what others would prefer to ignore. They can give voice to the voiceless, by speaking up when no one else will,” Streisand wrote.

“That’s why art is the enemy of tyrants and dictators.

“I believe we all have not only the right, but the responsibility to be politically active and to question authority,” she added.

Mentioning Trump’s politics, she wrote he “lies as easily as he breathes.”

“I can’t stand being lied to, and I don’t think the country should be lied to either,” Streisand wrote, before making a humorous remark about Trump, “And I just couldn’t comprehend how he could tell all these lies with absolutely no guilt (clearly he’s not Jewish.)”

When President Biden took over the office, Streisand expressed her satisfaction, sharing with Variety she believes “the country is certainly headed in the right direction.”

“I love Biden. I love his compassion, his honesty, his integrity, his love of facts, not fiction,” the Release Me: 2 singer said. “He is a good-hearted soul, intelligent. Years in the Senate. I’m a big fan.”

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