>>What is interesting to me is that many of the Industrial and even standard punk groups nailed it. The only thin was they thought the great Satan was the political right.
Spot on. I’d love to have a political conversation with the remaining members of The Clash, for instance.
When they kick out your front door
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun
When the law break in
How you gonna go?
Shot down on the pavement
Or waiting in death row
Short version:
I used to work with a young Jewish guy that was a punk dude. He was VERY intelligent but Leftist as they come. Why? He simply grew up in it, had been indoctrinated and never heard the other side of the story. We had many deep political discussions.
I didn’t completely turn him, but he is no longer the unflinching leftist. He became, dare I say it, almost right of center. One of the things I did was compare the lyrics of many of his favorite leftist punk bands to the reality of democrat governance.
To say his eyes got wide is an understatement.