If the United States continues to indulge in ... power and military might ... and ignores the rule of law and the alliance system that have made [it] great, then that power and might will eventually slip through its fingers.
[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.
[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,