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Luke Combs is a bit tired of the politicization of everything at all times. And if you paid any attention to the conversation surrounding the US Men’s Hockey Team right now, it’s not hard to agree with him, The country music hitmaker has been around long enough to see how politics have even creeped into music. For Combs, he does his best to stay out of it all. But on rare occasions, he’s either chosen to insert himself into the political conversation, or he’s been dragged into it by something in his past. In case you don’t remember, Luke Combs caught a bit of heat during the height of the Black Lives Matter movement after people (you can guess which side of the aisle) dug up a music video from 2015 that featured some Confederate flag imagery. In 2021, Luke joined a panel discussion about racism in country music with Maren Morris where he essentially apologized and said he wasn’t a racist. He felt like he was simply doing the right thing. But as a result of that conversation, many labeled him “soft,” “woke”, and if nothing else, a “liberal.” And as he explained in a recent interview with the New York Times’ Popcast, he still comments on his social media to this day because of it: “There’s always something on my videos like, ‘I can’t believe you like Luke Combs, he’s a liberal.’ One, I’ve never said what I am. That’s the thing that blows me away the most about it. Basically seven years ago, me saying that I was not a racist led to people saying, ‘Well he must be a liberal.’ I’ve been accused of a million things. I would consider myself heavily moderate in everything. That’s to the point where I’m not liberal enough for liberals and I’m not conservative enough for conservatives. I kind of like it that way. I also kind of like people not really knowing what I have going on politically.”  Combs went on in the interview to ask why all of “I’m this” or “I’m that” really matters at all. He disclosed that he’s got friends on both sides of the aisle, and that politics never get in the way of their friendships. The country music superstar is a bit tired of the political takeover. Combs doesn’t understand why him coming out and saying that he’s not racist gets him labeled as left-leaning, and he really doesn’t get why country music has become so intertwined with politics: “There was a time when people were actively trying to cancel me and saying, ‘This guy is a liberal.’ I never said that. I never said I was liberal. I never said I wasn’t. To me, it’s like… how is it hard to say you aren’t a racist? That’s all I’m saying… And I’m not a guy that feels like I need to push some sort of agenda. I’m a musician. No one is calling Donald Trump and asking him how to write a song. No one is calling AOC and saying, ‘How do I make my album better?’ Why do we care what Chris Stapleton thinks about politics?” Correct me if I’m wrong, but I definitely don’t think it’s always been that way. At the very least, people used to feel one way or the other about politics, and it wasn’t the end-all, be-all. But now, at least according to some, your political affiliation a life or death indictment of your morality. You’re on the right side, or the wrong side… an ally, or an enemy. And at the end of the day, there’s a lot of people who just don’t care about politics at all. It sounds like Luke Combs misses how things used to be. And in all of the efforts he’s made in recent years that have made people call him liberal, all he’s really trying to do is let the world know that the country music world is an inclusive place: “I’m not on here to change anybody’s mind, or change what country music is, or tell anybody who they should vote for or how they should live their lives. But I’m also not afraid to go out and say, ‘Hey man, country music is a place where I feel like anyone should be able to come and enjoy the music.’ They want you to be this or this. There’s no middle ground, grey area. There’s no headlines and there’s no clickbait in being a moderate.” And that’s exactly what country music is. Anyone and everyone can go to a country music show, and they do… every weekend, all across America. Of course, it’s the media that continues to drive this “country music is racist” narrative, and then those prone to fear mongering, hysteria and virtue signaling buy into it, perpetuate it and then here we are… having conversations like this. Fun times… You can hear more from Luke Combs on the matter in the interview below: The post “I Never Said I Was A Liberal”: Luke Combs Pushes Back Against Political Labels first appeared on Whiskey Riff.