Rage
Both progressives and conservatives identify with the message of Rage Against the Machine, regardless of whether the band would agree with them. Unfortunately, it is the worst elements of modern politics who have taken up the call to "break the system" and it has not resulted in positive change.
With all of the vitriol, hyper-partisanship, and polarization in modern discourse, and social media algorithms using AI designed to make us hate, the most important thing we have to rage against is rage itself.
When society is facing civil war because everyone has lost their trust in institutions, it is more subversive to rage for the machine!
So what if Jesus and Weird Al got together to write a parody of Know Your Enemy as a healing response to January 6? It might go something like this:
Love Your Enemy -- Rage Against Rage
Huh!Yeah, we’re comin’ back then with another lovetrack
Think ya know what it’s all about
Huh!
Hey yo, so check this out
Yeah!
Love your enemy!
Come on!
Born with raised consciousnessA witness to January 6
As we move into ’24
Still in a cell without a door
Ya got to know
Ya got to know
That when I say go, go, go
Amp up and amplify
Decry
All our brothers with a furious mind
Action must be taken
We saw what happens
When we break in
Something must be doneAbout dominion, a cross and a gun
‘Cause I’ll fix the mike, fix the stage, fix the system
I was born without "us and them"
Turn ya cheek, before you speak
And I’ll drop the style clearly
Love your enemy…Love your enemy!
Yeah!
Word is bornFight for peace, democracies
Now is time for patience
Sick of polarization
With the F the O the R the G the I the V the E
Mind of an evolutionary
So clear the lane
It's time to admit we're the same
Yes! The land of the free!
Nobody who lives here is your enemy!
Something must be doneAbout dominion, a cross and a gun
‘Cause I’ll fix the mike, fix the stage, fix the system
I was born without "us and them"
Now action must be takenWe saw what happens
When we break in
I’m minding my patience nowSo sick of division now
I’m minding my patience now
So sick of division now
Sick of sick of sick of sick of us
Time has come to pray…
Love your enemy!
Come on!Yes I have no enemies
Screw the AI that taught me to fight me
Compromise, community, cooperation, common mission
Education, equality, justice, even for the elite
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams