[W]e see that what is happening in our contemporary world, along with the decisions emanating from the Atlantic West, are signs and omens of an uncertain future. This future is causing Western democracy as a whole to head toward collapse,
[The song] was released during a period of deep social unrest and political turmoil in the United States — not totally far from Trump’s "America First" today.
Trump, grandson of a German immigrant, is particularly peeved at an independent South Africa, which was the worst example of a Western supremacist-cum-colonial mindset.
What perhaps remains unresolved, is how long the American electorate will allow Trump to reduce their country into a paranoia state, an empire of appalling tantrums and ragtag diplomacy.