Music and Politics Rants

 This is going to be me screaming angrily to let some stuff out of my system.  Either read sympathetically/with the intention to be therapeutic or skip, please.

4 years and my guts are still wrenched.  4 years and it still hurts.  That man came into my life in 2012, saying all the right things, opening a door to freedom to be as you are and rebelling against tyranny that wants everyone to be a robot.  But though he opened the door, he wasn’t on the other side of it.  Rob Halford’s gay, this man called him a sinner.  Ozzy Osbourne protests the endless war; this man acted like the “satanic Muslims are getting what they deserve.”  Geoff Tate demands no wall or border closures, this man stated in opposition, “We should build a wall, make America great again.”  Miley Cyrus cries out for rights for the LGBTQ+ community, this man responded, “You’re a harlot who’s going to Hell, it’s only okay for a man to brag about being sexually active, and even then, only if he’s a Republican.”  Michael Sweet, you may claim to know Jesus, but you sure as heck don’t work for Him.

 

I can only imagine that right now you’re mourning Eddie Van Halen and don’t know who George Floyd or Jacob Blake are.  I can only imagine you think military actions against Portland, OR were necessary.  I can only imagine you see no connection with greenhouse gases, an overuse of automobiles, wildfires in the Pacific States and more and more dangerous Hurricanes!  I can only imagine the mindset of someone who doesn’t believe a scientist’s word that a disease exists, but instead, believes a Politician’s baseless claim that it’s a plot to win an election and discredit him!  And yet, I would love nothing more than to hear you say that I’m wrong and you don’t really believe these things, but you have done NO actions to indicate so whatsoever!

Pearl Jam is right now with Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato, Sammy Hagar, Billy Ray Cyrus, K.Flay, Tom Morello, Cheap Trick, Geoff Tate and Joan Jett as one of my personal heroes of the American music business in this time of fascism, standing up for the disempowered against tyrannical politicians.  50 years from now, I will remember these individuals and bands like we remember Jimi Hendrix, Black Sabbath, John Lennon and John Fogerty today during the era of Nixon and Vietnam.  The current musicians are heroes against the evils of claiming God is tyrannical, African-Americans don’t matter, the LGBTQ+ either doesn’t exist or is made up of whores and sluts, that God is on the side of the censorship and oppression of minorities and the erroneous claim that war is patriotic, which the Government manifested during Vietnam and has brought back in an attempt to subjugate us with a combination of Hitler (targeted genocide of minorities) and Stalin (alters history to make himself look better and political enemies look like traitors) in charge.  When I was in High School, it broke my heart to see people apparently despise Jesus, but over time I learn people don’t despise Jesus, they despise how the Church distorted Jesus into a conservative dictatorial figure and now uses His name to control the masses in any and every way possible.  That is why jokes like on Family Guy get made (that and Seth McFarlane thinks being offensive=being funny), why movies like the Da Vinci Code can get made, why trying to be serious about God goes nowhere in this country, and why Church attendance in this country has been falling, because the majority of what is known as the Christian school of thought has married a political party, denied having a problem keeping itself out of polyamorous relationships, thinks abuse is necessary in child-rearing, wants to fight war as the first option to any disagreement, is rapacious to a ludicrous degree, is willing to let rape charges slide, believes men can say the phrase “grab them by the [vagina]” and get to be President, doesn’t feel anything when people are murdered and in some cases, cheers it on, believes orientation can be tortured away, has a fascination with using torture, period and often treats loss of life through murder or natural disaster of anyone who’s not white, male, straight and conservative as “they deserved it,” then tries to justify everything they do by quoting John 3:16 and Leviticus 20:13 when questioned.  I would pay a large sum of money for my musician heroes to “band” together and cover Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs.”