Sheryl Crow has been hitting the talk show circuit this week — to talk politics.

The singer/songwriter/activist, who said on “The View” she’s a Hillary Clinton supporter, thinks we’ve all heard enough — from both candidates. She’s lobbying to shorten the election cycle.

“This election cycle has been extremely damaging and has incited fear and hatred.”

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“Two years of a campaign does not educate anyone any more than if it had been six months,” she told Megyn Kelly of Fox News on Wednesday night. “[This presidential race has] not been any more enlightening. It’s kind of just benefitted the media outlets and political consultants who work on elections and super PACs and lobbyist — and we have to get away from that. We’ve got to change the dialogue.”

Replied Kelly, “Realistically, it would be very hard, but what you’re speaking to is a larger malaise” in the country. “It’s a massive downer.”

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Crow,  who was raised by a Democrat mom and a Republican dad, said in an interview with Business Insider earlier this week that the “urgency and sense of vitriol” in the election may have taken a physical toll on her mother’s health.

“I was actually in the hospital with my mom and they would come in every couple hours to take her vitals,” Crow said. “And she’s a true news junkie, very well-informed. And her vitals were off the charts. She’s usually 90/60 and she was 169/60. I could see what this is doing to all of us.”

Earlier this month, Crow was more outspoken about blaming Trump. In an appearance on “The View,” she said, “I’m embarrassed. My kids — I don’t want to go too far into it but I don’t let my kids watch TV when he’s on. It’s just — I want to be able to say to my kids, ‘Being the president of the United States is the most honorable position,’ and it needs to go back to that, and we need to change the dialogue.”

After she appeared, she said she heard from a lot of people asking how to sign the petition.

The election’s sense of “nastiness,” as Crow calls it, is part of the reason she decided to launch a Change.org petition. She has nearly 50,000 signatures and plans to deliver the petition to the Democratic and Republican National Committees.

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In it, she points out that by the time Americans go to the polls on Nov. 8, this presidential campaign will have run over 600 days, kicking off with Ted Cruz’s announcement back in March of 2015.

“This election cycle has been extremely damaging and has incited fear and hatred in a country founded on the beauty of our differences and the desire to lift each person, no matter race, religion, political party, or economic status, to reach his or her fullest potential.”

She asks that the DNC and the RNC “tweak” the primary calendar to “reduce the amount of time we are exposed to presidential campaigns.”

This year, on March 1, 11 states participated in the first of four Super Tuesday primaries — so those would all have to move closer to actual Election Day.

“The American people have been extremely disrespected in this campaign season with the ugliness that pits us against each other and with nonsense and fear-mongering,” said Crow. “It is time this comes to an end and that we demand better for ourselves.”