CM Punk: Where We Are As A Country Now, I Feel Like We’re Going Backwards

CM Punk might not bring his views to television, but most fans know how he feels and who he supports if they follow him on Instagram.

Speaking to Matt Barnes on All The Smoke, Punk was asked why it’s important for him to speak up on tough topics.

“It’s always the right time to do the right thing. My perspective on it now, is that I understand if you’re watching a wrestling show, you just want to see people clubbering each other and Shakespeare drama, that maybe you don’t want to get hit over the head with real world things of who is a Republican and who is a Democrat and these political things, but for me, especially today, the world is such an ugly place. I understand there being an escape, but when am I supposed to talk about this stuff? I do feel very strongly about things. I tend to lean more towards, I’m not being political, this is human rights. You either learn or you don’t that there is a right and there is a wrong. Where we are as a country now, I feel like we’re going backwards. We are and we’re talking about taking rights away from marginalized groups. I feel that we as people have never been represented by our government in a proper way. I think Obama was President for eight years, and the pendulum swung so far in the other direction after a while, and now we’re dealing with the repercussions of that.

“I talk about things that I believe strongly in on my Instagram, that’s my Instagram. I can do that. I tend to lean away from doing it on television because I understand ‘if you choose a side on this, you’re turning off X amount of viewers on this side.’ I get that, but I think sometimes the subjects and things going on are too important to ignore. I have a big mouth and I speak from the heart. Sometimes I get it wrong, but most of the time I think I get it right. I believe in people, not governments.”

Punk previously said that he didn’t think WWE wanted the wrestlers to be outwardly political, but that it is obvious what his politics are.

WWE has shown footage of Triple H visiting the White House and meeting with President Donald Trump.

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