Bono is a Christian. Gives me additional permission to address. Somehow.

B. on the political, gags for dissection. He preach or bring a word: Me weigh.

Not so on his red-one perspective. Revealing the fairy story it is. But how this reflects our common ones? Ordinary responsible types, who prescribe to moderate ideological hopes and benevolent believing outlook. The kids are alright and if we band-aid like together. All be better.

Buy off poverty. Tax the rich and open national borders. Containment from bad-bad misunderstood Islam with sensible kick-back at so-named enemy, “Western Imperialism”, while let’s all keep the peace and cuddle-up united.

Not that peace calling and unity isn't an overriding aspiration. But peace = it's a Trump prob. This is convenient bubble talk. Stupid, stupid, stupid... disregard of recent history and facts.

Shouts leprechauns and long leisurely floats, in a looong yacht. Delightful company, scooting about the world at large. Any surprise, we looks to him, as does?

Try standing in the Bon’s shoes? Yet...

How did it come to this?

To bland and pretend. Ones, and I met them here and there pre-famou-sly so. Once growling angryish agit. Jesus rad. Pop maybe but somehow, gutsy and raw.

Let’s goosey (gander) c/o Drudge:

'BONO: Trump Disrupted 'Moral Arc of Universe'...'

To expand and cometh trouble. What the are you... Bono-on about?

Throughout the rule of King Barack … Na-Da.

Now, it’s all pipes and bring-it-on rude. A song ‘n dance.

Then, all surrendered and shtumph… Now we suddenly the outsiders, shouting at the currently installed pope.

All QT while every previously-held civil Lib. trampled into the ground. Bullet in the Blue Sky, lock up disproportionately more whistle-blowers, fast and furious. NDAA, Bang – Gazi.

Man couldn’t be more Bush. And what, this now, moved into mayhem? Literally.

‘In The Name of..'

You been had. Ripped ya pants down and. Completely. And all who sound so johnny-come-late blame Trump. Not the banks and mil. indust. complex. Not the sickos who probably go VIP at u-2's gigs.

Bashing Trump, there's intelligent room. No though and you, because; 'there's something happening and you don’t know what it is...’ Do you? Mr B.

You the man who looked so effort-full with poverty-thrashing intentions. How the cloud descends. Vegan organic caviar and designer drugs envelope. Who knows what gets in Bono’s gob?

Who knows who or what gets you?

Time to stop. Want to like Bono and goodness knows all. But needs a repentance from purposefully pretending the world he claims is.

That all. What he thinks about, his fantasy, about the us and two's, don’t live-in his one.

Has it come to this?

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Bono on How U2's 'Songs of Experience' Evolved, Taking on Donald Trump by Andy Greene

You've spent the past few months playing The Joshua Tree on tour as you put the finishing touches on the album. Has the tour impacted how you thought about Songs of Experience? How?

In truth, there's a couple of reasons why we delayed Songs of Experience. One personal, one political. The world around us was certainly changing out of all recognition, we nearly lost the European Union, something that has helped keep the peace in our region for nearly 70 years. Globalization replaced with localization is somewhat understandable, but the return of hard right views is not to be tolerated. If Marie La Pen had been elected president of France, the whole idea of a European Union would have been vulnerable.

You've had the same sort of disaffection in the United States with the rise of a new kind of constituency, people on the both left and right who have lost faith in political process, the body politic, in political institutions. These sentiments are easily played and manipulated by the likes of Donald Trump. In a world where people feel bullied by their circumstance, sometimes people fall prey to a bully of their own. Lots of people around me, both conservative and liberal, feel that this is one of those defining moments in their life and in the storied life of their country. After the election, some people on the left were almost grieving I'd say and when I try to understand this, I realized there was a kind of mourning, a mourning for innocence that was lost.

For the first time in many years, maybe in our lifetime, the moral arc of the universe, as Dr. King used to call it, was not bending in the direction of fairness, equality and justice for all. The baseness of political debate, the jingoism, the atavistic fervor of Trump's verbiage reminded us that we were dreaming if we thought evolution applied to consciousness. Democracy is a blip in history and it requires a lot of focus and concentration to keep it intact.

"The Blackout," which started off its life about a more personal apocalypse, some events in my life that more than reminded me of my mortality but then segued into the political dystopia that we're heading towards now. "Dinosaur, wonders why it still walks the earth. A meteor promises it's not going to hurt" would have been a funny line about an aging rock star. It's a little less funny if we're talking about democracy and old certainties – like truth. The second verse "Statues fall, democracy is flat on its back, Jack. We had it all and what we had is not coming back, Zac. A big mouth says the people they don't want to be free for free. The blackout, is this an extinction event we see?" goes straight to the bigger picture of what's at stake in the world right now. MORE