Graham Nash Supports Sanders and Clinton, Says Donald Trump Plays on People's Fears

Although he was born in Britain, in 1968 he came to America to form the seminal folk rock group, Crosby Stills and Nash (and sometimes Young), gaining citizenship in the late '70s. The band, in that time, famously sung about the students shot and killed at Kent State University for "Ohio" and commented on counter culture in "Woodstock" and many other songs.

So Nash can be considered a little more of an authority on American politics that most musicians out there today. In an interview with Billboard, he had some harsh things to say about the populist Republican candidate, Donald Trump.

"There are an incredible amount of people in this country that are not so bright and he is appealing to a great many of them and a great many of their fears, the boogie man waiting to take their guns and come and rape their daughters in the middle of the night," Nash said. "He's playing upon all those fears and it's dreadful to see, but nobody I know has the will or the power to shut him up."

Surprise, the liberal hippie protester isn't a big fan of the leading Republican in the field. But he does know a little something about spreading love and commenting on the party as a whole, says he's never seen it in such disarray while spreading such extreme levels of hatred and animosity towards other people.

Nash says he's more of a Bernie supporter, but he's unsure about his viability in the general election. For that, he places more faith in Clinton due to her foreign policy experience, but says she's not without her faults either, citing the Democratic candidate's history with Wall Street.

"As artists we have a responsibility to reflect the times in which we live and as people we have a responsibility to try and make it better for the next generation, that's how I view it, very simplistic viewpoint," Nash says.

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