"I don't believe in lobbying only progressives and liberal members of Congress. I don't believe in doing interviews only with those who share my views. I want to reach a wider audience"
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There is a quietly radical PR instinct baked into Bianca Jagger's refusal to preach only to the choir. On its face, she's talking tactics: lobbying and media access as levers for change. Underneath, she's challenging a comforting progressive habit - mistaking ideological purity for political effectiveness. The line draws a boundary against activist echo chambers without flattering the other side. It's not "let's compromise"; it's "let's communicate."
The phrasing matters. "I don't believe" repeats like a drumbeat, framing outreach not as a stunt but as a principle. She pairs Congress with interviews to collapse two ecosystems - policymaking and narrative-making - into the same problem: if your audience is only people who already nod along, you're not persuading, you're performing. The subtext is that modern politics often rewards performance. Jagger is insisting on persuasion.
Context sharpens it. As a celebrity-activist, she's often treated as either a megaphone or a mascot, useful for fundraising or optics but suspect when she tries to shape strategy. This quote pushes back: celebrity can be a bridge, not just a brand. She leverages access - to cameras, to rooms, to attention - while signaling she won't let that access be domesticated by partisan comfort. "Wider audience" isn't code for softening the message; it's a bet that moral urgency doesn't need ideological gatekeeping to travel. It just needs translation, patience, and the willingness to be disliked by your own side for talking to people who don't clap on cue.
The phrasing matters. "I don't believe" repeats like a drumbeat, framing outreach not as a stunt but as a principle. She pairs Congress with interviews to collapse two ecosystems - policymaking and narrative-making - into the same problem: if your audience is only people who already nod along, you're not persuading, you're performing. The subtext is that modern politics often rewards performance. Jagger is insisting on persuasion.
Context sharpens it. As a celebrity-activist, she's often treated as either a megaphone or a mascot, useful for fundraising or optics but suspect when she tries to shape strategy. This quote pushes back: celebrity can be a bridge, not just a brand. She leverages access - to cameras, to rooms, to attention - while signaling she won't let that access be domesticated by partisan comfort. "Wider audience" isn't code for softening the message; it's a bet that moral urgency doesn't need ideological gatekeeping to travel. It just needs translation, patience, and the willingness to be disliked by your own side for talking to people who don't clap on cue.
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