Dave Mustaine is crazy. We love him, but he’s crazy. He was crazy when he drank too much, he was crazy when he nearly OD’d, he was crazy when he found Jesus and decided he wouldn’t play some of his old songs, he was crazy when he fell asleep on his arm thus making it never work again *cough*, and he’s crazy now.
This is why Dave Mustaine should be President.
Oh, no, I am not serious about that whatsoever. But Dave recently ruminated on the idea. Truncated, courtesy of Blabbermouth:
The Sydney Morning Herald recently conducted an interview with MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine. A few excerpts from the chat follow:
On what he would do if he became president of the United States :
“I’d be a really cool president, I guarantee you, man. We’d have a party for a few days and then American sentiment in the world would go up.
“I’d say, ‘We’re taking back our soldiers from Germany, Korea, the Philippines and the Middle East. You guys fight your own fâ€â€ing battles. And by the way, if you’re in the United States right now and you’re illegal you’ve got a 90-day grace period. Get out.’ Teachers would get paid a lot of money, so would cops. Politicians would get shit.”
On whether younger voters are more likely to be moved from apathy by an aging rocker than a stuffy politician:
“If they knew their voice was heard. They know their [current] commander-in-chief doesn’t care about them. If I was the president I would, but you know what? Some motherfâ€â€er would assassinate me.”
Now, let’s not get into the economic repercussions of doing any of these things, or the impact on global relations, or anything else in the “real world”. Dave’s been preaching for years that the US is a war-hungry dominator and our government shouldn’t be trusted. This bitterness about illegal immigrants is new, but it’s a commonly held opinion. Of course then he gets all communist redistributing wealth, but we all know the guy has a point when it comes to education and law enforcement.
I’m amused that he’s paraphrased Kanye West and applied it to the entire nation. Nice touch.
I’d mention something about musicians keeping their yaps shut when it comes to politics because 98% of the time they end up looking like complete morons, but hey — if they’re as entertaining as Dave, let ’em go. Everyone knows he’s crazy, so let him run at the mouth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful thing, when interviews like this end up published. The country could use a little more crazy. Sure, we’d be screwed on a global scale, but we’d all be doing it while headbanging.
But the part that rings true more than anything else is his final sentence. Dave would be a vapor trail within a week. Although I’m pretty sure that if Dave announced his candidacy, so would Lars Ulrich, who would win and screw Dave over ALL OVER AGAIN.
