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Green Day Draws Conservative Rage for Anti-'MAGA Agenda' Lyric
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American Idiot is almost 20 years old and the message hasn't changed. Do these people just have zero media literacy?
Yes. They also think Rage Against the Machine “got political”.
RATM.
Remember when Tom Morello had to slap down Paul Ryan? https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/tom-morello-paul-ryan-is-the-embodiment-of-the-machine-our-music-rages-against-246033/
Ah, yes. The far away time when "Far Right" just meant ideologically conservative and not the wannabe brownshirts. So long ago, 2012.
A simpler time.
Republicans and Wealthy businessmen plotted a Nazi style overthrow of FDR and the US government in the 1930s. Republican Nazis have been a trope and a joke throughout the last 40 to 50 years. I'll give you this, they went from being quiet and out of sight to front and center.