Why Are My Favorite Punk Bands Playing a Trump Supporter's Festival? Why I'm Boycotting 'Punk in the Park'

A good punk band would perform just to play songs that shit all over the audience and be disruptive. Like that LGBTQ band that got hired for some other GOP thing and ended up getting kicked out half through a song about a trans kid after putting on a pride hat.

The organizer donated $255 to Trumps campaign... It's not good, and there's certainly a line to be drawn in doing business with non-politically aligned folk, especially when it comes to the punk ethos. However, remember the enemey isn't your neighbor who voted for Trump. And it's not even the $400k/yr income business owner or tech bro in the fancy neighborhood across the street. It's the leisure class billionaires and oligarch fascists that have more money than God and don't lift a finger to whipe their own asses.

Sometimes your neighbors are stupid and sometimes they work against their own self interest. It's frustrating, but remember who the real enemy is. I don't expect bands to be doing background checks on all of the people they do business with. $255 would easily go unnoticed unless this dude is a raging asshole/MAGA/political activist but I highly doubt that.