Actor Seth Rogen refuses to call a truce with President Trump and unite Americans, saying that leftists must "normalize" the opposition and entrench themselves further into the divide.
“I don’t want to look back in ten years and think, ‘I just didn’t say anything during that time,’ because it seems like a time where it’s very important to normalize dissent,” Rogen told the Daily Beast.
In fairness, Rogen did say he does not wish to "insult people who voted for Donald Trump,” but wishes to normalize "the idea that a lot of people do not think that he is a good president, and do not think that he is bringing the country in a good direction, and not making it seem like some fringe, out-there thing that only really aggressive people who have whipped themselves into some sort of frenzy are expressing."
Rogen refuses to accept the role he played in Trump's ascendancy when he insulted millions of his voters with his anti-religious sex comedy Sausage Party that painted religious believers as repressed fools in need of a wakeup call.
As a Canadian, Rogen highlighted the differences in political thought in the two countries: “I find myself not even aligned with the left wing of American politics often, because in Canada, even that is pretty far right in many lines of thinking,” he said. “I’m not used to being thrilled with American politics in general. But I do think it’s a lot better than most places; better than a lot of other places I’ve been. I’m allowed to say and do things here that I couldn’t in other places.”
“I agree with the people who are very angry,” Rogen said, “and I also agree with the people who are like, ‘We have to look for ways to not create more division, and to come together,’ and I sympathize with the people who are like, ‘F*ck that! This is ridiculous,’ and I sympathize with the people who are like, ‘F*ck that! That’s never going to solve anything.'”
Very fair of him, if not exactly principled. Then Rogen concluded with this blunt, juvenile message [strong language alert]: "If one day we’re sitting at home watching a tape of Donald Trump j*rking off while women p*ss on each other, if that’s where all this ends, then that’s just fantastic."
