In case you haven't noticed, these are very polarized, intensely fraught times politically. Tepid discussions between conservatives and liberals rarely happen. Instead, they combust into fiery verbal jousts that leave all parties emotionally wrung out. Country music star Luke Combs would prefer not to be in the thorny thick of this fray. In other words, he does not want to have a political label placed on his back such as "liberal." Still, that word continues to haunt him. Now Combs is having his say in order to finally put the pesky issue to rest.
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How the Liberal Label Got Attached to Combs
The "Ain't No Love in Oklahoma" singer participated in a panel discussion years ago. The hot-button subject happened to be racism in country music. Combs contended that he isn't racist. That should have been the end of the story. Unfortunately, though, some people extrapolated from that, concluding Combs must therefore be a liberal.
He was a guest recently on The New York Times' Popcast. That was when Combs attempted to set the record straight on his political affiliations, or lack thereof.
Combs shared, "There's always something on my videos like, 'I can't believe you like Luke Combs, he's a liberal.' One, I've never said what I am. That's the thing that blows me away the most about it. Basically seven years ago, me saying that I was not a racist led to people saying, 'Well he must be a liberal.'"
Combs Prefers To Keep His Leanings to Himself
He chooses to keep it low-key when it comes to politics. On the Popcast, Luke Combs said, "I've been accused of a million things. I would consider myself heavily moderate in everything. That's to the point where I'm not liberal enough for liberals and I'm not conservative enough for conservatives. I kind of like it that way. I also kind of like people not really knowing what I have going on politically."
Combs is a bit confounded about how politics got so closely intertwined with entertainment in the first place. "And I'm not a guy that feels like I need to push some sort of agenda. I'm a musician. No one is calling Donald Trump and asking him how to write a song. No one is calling AOC and saying, 'How do I make my album better?' Why do we care what Chris Stapleton thinks about politics?"
