Democracy, by its nature, requires participation. You have to give a damn. Taylor Swift does, and so should we all<\/p>\n
Get Margaret Sullivan\u2019s latest columns delivered straight to your inbox<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n If you\u2019re any kind of a Taylor Swift fan, you\u2019ve seen the footage of the pop star arguing with her father<\/a>. The subject is politics. Or, more specifically, whether Taylor should express herself publicly on political issues and candidates, in this case in defense of women\u2019s reproductive rights.<\/p>\n Dad makes the case against it. In protective mode, he wants his daughter to stay in her lane: music. It\u2019s not good for her safety or her career or her mental health to go prancing through this minefield of controversy, alienating people and drawing abusers along the way. One of her managers agrees \u2013 does she really want to see only half<\/em> as many people at her next show?<\/p>\n Margaret Sullivan is a Guardian US columnist writing on media, politics and culture<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Democracy, by its nature, requires participation. You have to give a damn. Taylor Swift does, and so should we all Get Margaret Sullivan\u2019s latest columns delivered straight to your inbox If you\u2019re any kind of a Taylor Swift fan, you\u2019ve seen the footage of the pop star arguing with her father. The subject is politics. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}