[W]e see that what is happening in our contemporary world ... are signs and omens of an uncertain future ... 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.
The United States’ demand for drugs destroys Mexico’s everyday life, and those who escape from this destroyed life are again met with the guns of U.S. ICE agents.
While Trump is a powerful force within the Republican Party, his polarising presence is creating substantial challenges for the party in appealing to a broad enough coalition to secure consistent, nationwide victories beyond his core base.
[T]he Republican Party is now a coalition of religious conservatives, the social and economic right, and libertarian oligarchs. For their part, the Democrats have become a broad “tent” uniting liberals, moderates, and socialists.