Harrison Ford: Politics Making A ‘Healthy Swing To The Right’

Harrison Ford may lean liberal, but he isn’t worried about the country taking a shift toward the conservative side.

“The pendulum doth swing in both directions, and it’s on a healthy swing to the right at the moment,” Ford said. “And, as nature dictates, it will swing back.”

“Currently, the issue is not who we are, but that we’re not who we used to be because we’ve been purposefully disaggregated into serviceable political units,” he told Variety.

According to the actor, the zero-sum game between the left and the right has throttled America’s ability to find solutions through the middle ground.

“That has caused the middle to become frayed and tenuous, and the middle is where we belong,” the “Blade Runner” star said. “Not because it’s banal and safe, but because it’s fair. Compromise is fair and honest.”

Learning how to handle defeat, while still sticking to your values, is a crucial lesson Ford thinks people have forgotten.

“In politics and in life, you don’t always get what you want, but you get what you get and you don’t get upset,” he said. “They teach us that in kindergarten, but they also teach you to fight for what you think is right.”

He continued, “Now, because we’ve been disaggregated in this way, we’re having a hard time finding commonality.”

But Ford told Variety he thinks there is one major issue people of all persuasions should be able to rally around.

“If you look at the economy, you’ll figure out where the commonality is — it’s where it always was: Rich get richer, and poor get poorer,” he said. “And that ain’t exactly right.”

Asked if he had any solutions, the star told Variety he wasn’t the one with the answers.

“You’re asking an unqualified person,” he said. “So I don’t have that answer.”