"All are welcome to meet here in The Middle. The Middle has been a hard place to get to lately ... Between red and blue. Between servant, and citizen. We need The Middle. We just have to remember the very soil we stand on is common ground. So, we can get there. We will cross this divide. Our light has always found its way through the darkness.”
– Bruce Springsteen, “The Middle,” Jeep Super Bowl commercial, Feb. 7, 2021.
“Nuance is great, but sometimes you have to kick them in the teeth.” – Springsteen, taking the stage Jan. 30 at “A Concert of Solidarity & Resistance to Defend Minnesota!,” benefiting Minnesota citizens killed by federal agents.
As Super Bowl 60 approaches Feb. 8, the gulf between this year’s national secular holiday and Super Bowl 55 in 2021 seems to get wider with every passing week.
Perhaps you remember: Unprecedented times that still struggled to find precedent, 11 months removed from a global pandemic that would kill 500,000 Americans in its first year. Eight months removed from the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis that spawned a global protest movement.
