This song is about direct action. Extremists want to harm people for characteristics that are either social constructs or immutable, and we must all stand up to protect anyone they target. In the U.S. there’s a lot of hemming and hawing from the ‘left’ (true Liberals in the global sense of the word) about whether or not the use of violence to prevent greater violence is morally justifiable. Was the Battle of Cable Street morally justifiable? Was the Allied response to Nazi Germany justifiable? The only redeeming feature of fascism is that it is not an intrinsic trait. At any point, you can choose to stop being a fascist. Unfortunately, they get support-by-default in many Liberal democracies. This brings to mind the old adage: “If there is a table with nine people listening to a Nazi, then there are ten Nazis at the table.”
This was recorded with the Zoom recorder. My mandolin makes an appearance, but I think it needs some setup work because it was buzzing a bit. The microphones are not clipping and I didn’t add distortin in post; it just has some loose components that were rattling.
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