Someone I've Met (No Big Deal)

THIS ARTICLE calls Bruce's upcoming album The Wrecking Ball his "most overtly political album yet."

I'd suggest that if it is an "overtly political" album, then it's his first.  We're talking about a guy who wrote one maybe the most misunderstood song of all time, and whose 9/11 album was about the blood and bones of people affected, not the political forces behind the leadup or followup.  A perusal of his canon can tell you where his sympathies and desires lie politically, but I don't think any album has been delivered by him as "overtly political."

Meanwhile, I think the man himself nails his own raison d'etre:

“My work has always been about judging the distance between American reality and the American Dream.”