u/RNAdrops

Just listen to the lyrics, clearly told from the perspective of a person in a police state, a military dictatorship, whether fascist or communist is irrelevant. If , as Orwell said, the future is “ a human face being stamped on by a boot…forever “, this is the song on the lips of that face. Like John Carpenter and so many other great artists of the late 20th century, Danzig tried to warn us, but we ignored it. And now we have arrived, in our own technocratic dystopia. And we Cantspeak….

It was the (first) third party in American history

(1828–1838)

Triggered by the disappearance of William Morgan (1826)

Morgan threatened to publish a book exposing Freemason rituals

He was arrested on minor charges.. then vanished

Many Americans believed local Freemasons kidnapped and murdered him

Courts didn’t hold many members accountable

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The party believed..

-- Freemasonry was a secret, oath-bound society inside government

-- It corrupted courts and election

-- Public officials should not belong to secret organizations

-- Transparency > hidden loyalty networks

This wasn’t just fringe paranoia because Freemasonry at the time (and now) included judges, sheriffs, politicians, and business elites

So suspicion spread fast and sparked outrage