Public Enemy - Bernie Sanders spat: Electoral politics is child’s play compared with band politics

Many successful bands benefit from the push and pull between one member who believes that music should be a vessel for ideas and activism and one who just wants to give people a good time, the optimal result being music that is simultaneously righteous and fun - Guardian writes about the curious/unfortunate Public Enemy split, supposedly over Bernie Sanders. “Chuck D, he’s the politician of the group. I’m just the friendly jester” - Flavor Flav said. "It’s a shame that after 35 years Public Enemy is no longer able to contain both impulses, but whoever is to blame, it’s not Bernie Sanders" - the G said; adding a good point - "Band dynamics are as hard to fathom as other people’s marriages, which is why our cultural obsession with splits and reunions goes far beyond music. They are case studies in the forces that bring people together and drive them apart".