Creativity Quote by Glenn Danzig

There is something almost punk about the complaint itself: not a manifesto, not a policy brief, just a blunt gripe about the gatekeepers. Coming from Glenn Danzig, a musician whose brand is loud autonomy and distrust of polite institutions, the line reads less like an ideological pitch and more like an anti-establishment reflex. He isn’t arguing the Libertarian Party is right; he’s arguing it’s ignored. That shift matters. The emotion here is grievance over access, not conviction over doctrine.

The intent is straightforward: he wants airtime for a third party. The subtext is sharper: the media is framed as a rigged amplifier, not a neutral mirror. In one sentence, “they don’t” carries the whole accusation of collusion - that coverage is a controlled commodity doled out to Democrats and Republicans, while everyone else is treated like a novelty act. It’s also a quietly self-referential gripe from someone who has spent a career navigating who gets booked, who gets played, who gets written up.

Contextually, this fits a familiar late-20th/early-21st-century celebrity-politics move: align with “outsider” politics as an extension of outsider identity. Libertarianism, in this register, becomes less a coherent platform than a vibe: personal sovereignty, suspicion of authority, the romance of being ungovernable. The line works because it’s not polished. It’s the kind of offhand frustration that signals authenticity to fans while turning media marginalization into proof of relevance.