Matthew McConaughey Slams Political Divide In America – ‘What’s Going On With Us?’

Academy Award-winning star Matthew McConaughey is speaking out this week to slam the political divide that is currently plaguing the United States. 

McConaughey Sounds Off 

In a new interview with Fox News, McConaughey opened up about what exactly recently made him consider running for governor of Texas.

“Giving a wondering about, ‘Hey, what are we doing? What’s going on with us as, as a people, as a state, how we’re getting along, where have we gone awry?'” McConaughey said. 

“What’s the role of politics in the world? Is it still serving democracy, which I think it should in America,” he added. “Studying into two parties, seeing a loss of values, actually, because seeing people on both sides of the aisle, either side of the aisle, rather, holding on so tightly to their blue or red flag pole that their whole identities almost sometimes seems to be based on the invalidation of the other, instead of the validation of their own vision.”

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This Isn’t The Way ‘Forward’ For America 

McConaughey went on to say that he does not believe that this kind of thinking is the way “forward” for politics in America.

“Now I know, and I think we all know that, in the long run, that’s not the way forward,” he explained. 

Rumors swirled for much of last year that McConaughey would run for governor of Texas, but he announced in November that he had decided not to do so.

“Over the past two years, I’ve been working on the answer to the question of how I can be most useful in this life going forward,” McConaughey said at the time. “Useful to myself, useful to my family and to the most amount of people.”

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McConaughey Hasn’t Ruled Out Political Career

However, McConaughey made a point of not ruling out a political career in the future.

“As a simple kid born in the little town of Uvalde, Texas, it never occurred to me that I would one day be considered for political leadership,” he said. “It’s a humbling and inspiring path to ponder. It is also a path that I am choosing not to take at this moment.”

With politics off the table for now, McConaughey is preparing to star in Salesforce’s new 2022 Super Bowl ad, a campaign which he co-created titled, “The New Frontier.” 

“It’s not time to escape,” McConaughey can be heard saying in the commercial. “It’s time to engage. It’s time to plant more trees. It’s time to build more trust. It’s time to make more space for all of us. So while the others look to the metaverse and Mars, let’s stay here and restore ours. Yeah, it’s time to blaze our trail. ‘Cause the new frontier? It ain’t rocket science. It’s right here.”

Check out the ad for yourself below. 

McConaughey is one of the few people in Hollywood who actually seems to have a good head on his shoulders. It will certainly be interesting to see if he launches a career in politics in the future. 

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