We are the leapers we were waiting for – Fridays with Billy.

It’s an election year.

They’re telling us women can’t be trusted with our reproductive health, LGBTQ folks can’t be trusted to get married, black, brown, and poor folks can’t be trusted to vote, and only the rich can be trusted with our money (and while we’re at it, they’re also telling us that Palestinians don’t deserve human dignity).

Here’s what Billy has to say about all of that (video after the jump):

You can be active with the activists

Or sleep in with the sleepers

While you’re waiting for the Great Leap Forwards

One leap forwards, two leaps back

Will politics get me the sack?

Here comes the future and you can’t run from it

If you’ve got a blacklist I want to be on it

It’s a mighty long way down rock ‘n roll

From Top of the Pops to drawing the dole

If no one seems to understands

Start your own revolution, cut out the middleman

In a perfect world we’d all sing in tune

But this is reality so give me some room

So join the struggle while you may

The Revolution is just a t-shirt away

full lyrics; What is Fridays with Billy?

(Ok, it's really more "audio" than "video" in any meaningful sense, but it had the best sound quality, so...).