Tom Morello Responds to Angry Fans Who Suddenly Realize That Rage Against the Machine’s Music Is Political: “What Music of Mine DIDN’T Contain Political BS?”

When you sud­den­ly realise nobody lis­tens to your lyrics

Sol­id arti­cle.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iragyhVgLOg

The fun­ni­est post I’ve seen relat­ed to this:
“what machine you thought they be rag­ing against… The dish­wash­er??

I’ve always known that Rage, Tom and Zack, et al, have very, very shit­ty polit­i­cal opin­ions and they look for and often find cor­rup­tion and racism where there is NONE.…
But, I’ve always liked their music despite that fact. The beats, the rhythm, Tom’s abil­i­ty to make a gui­tar sound like scratch­ing and sampling.….ALL would be just as great with­out the rad­i­cal anti-Amer­i­can theme of the lyrics. It’s entire­ly pos­si­ble to love the deliv­ery but hate the mes­sage!

Yup, 2020. 20 years for obstruc­tion and 20 years for bribery, lying, delib­er­ate­ly over­charg­ing tax pay­ers, etc… Imp45

It’s sad that a lot of peo­ple have blind­ers on their eyes and crap in their ears, obliv­i­ous to what’s real­ly going on. But yet want to talk down on some­one who’s try­ing to open the eye­’s of those that are hear­ing the music. But not lis­ten­ing to the mes­sage. Keep on RAGING.

I loved rage when they first came out in the ear­ly 90’s and they were rel­e­vant to the under­ground cul­ture of the time. They pushed the enve­lope as far as lyrics and sounds go and I haven’t heard a band like them since. As a teenag­er their lyrics spoke to me and I could relate to the angst they por­trayed. I learned a lot by look­ing up the mean­ings behind what they were say­ing, and in a way they changed my life by mak­ing me take an active role in just try­ing to make sense of pol­i­tics.
Cut to now, some 20yrs lat­er, and its not quite the same sto­ry. Pol­i­tics, and cul­ture in gen­er­al today has changed, espe­cial­ly among the youth, it is noth­ing but a mar­keters wet dream…almost thanks to bands like rage. There was nev­er real­ly a big youth demo­graph­ic that aimed pol­i­tics and/or polit­i­cal music like rage did when they 1st came out. And over the years, each gen­er­a­tion of kids that came after has been indoc­tri­nat­ed and con­di­tioned by cor­po­rate con­glom­er­ates who have turned things like protest­ing for a cause into a bil­lion dol­lar com­mer­cial cam­paign where they pre­tend to be “woke” in order to sell crap to kids.
And with rage mak­ing a “come­back”, and the main­stream media pay­ing alot more atten­tion to them this time because now it suits their mar­ket­ing agen­da, I think they should’ve just stayed away and kept the last shred of authen­tic­i­ty they still had. Instead I see things like them charg­ing out­ra­geous prices for shows, which they say most of it goes to “char­i­ties” or what­ev­er, but even if they did, the only peo­ple who are able to afford to go will be the rich white upper class peo­ple they’ve been so whole­heart­ed­ly “rag­ing against” all these years.
So sor­ry Tom and the rest of the guys, but this is one fan who, always knew your pol­i­tics and at one time raged right along there with you as a kid, but now wish you’d just go away and not par­tic­i­pate in this so called “upris­ing”, most­ly because its being led on by the machine itself, that I thought you were against?
But then again, rage has always been hyp­ocrites when it comes to these things, its just more obvi­ous and pathet­ic than ever before. I mean the whole “anti-cap­i­tal­ist” thing just does­n’t have that bite to it any­more com­ing from 4 dudes who made mil­lions off of it. You just know when things like Ama­zon are “spon­sers” for these “protests” and rage(before covid) was set to play at places like “Citibank” are­na, that their orig­i­nal fire they once had has been thor­ough­ly extin­guished. Sad times…

Nope. It is you that is anti Amer­i­can. Only a white suprema­cist says peo­ple find racism where there is none. I bet you believe those NYPD pig thugs who lied about being poi­soned. Incor­rect, you are the one who hates Amer­i­ca. If you are too dumb too under­stand the lyrics you don’t deserve top lis­ten to RATM. You have to be real­ly stu­pid to love the music but hate the mes­sage.

There is no polorzi­ton. In a real coun­try Democ­rats would fit more in left with cen­ter right con­servi­tives.

I’ve always been a RATM fan and always will till the day I die… or until RATM sell out to THE MACHINE which I hope they nev­er will…

You got one part right. You are dumb. You can read, write, or lis­ten. And you can’t think for your­self.

The truth was there for any­one to see, and for 28 years you were to blind to notice.

You have no brain, you have to be told what to do, to think.

RAtM was talk­ing about peo­ple like YOU this whole time, lmao.

Late to this arti­cle but I was real­ly influ­enced by RATM in my teenage years. They are the rea­son I hate both the repub­li­can par­ty and the demo­c­ra­t­ic par­ty, cor­po­rate greed and police.
It’s sad to see Tom blow­ing the democ­rats.
If you think their lyrics were fond of red or blue you weren’t lis­ten­ing.
Why haven’t we got­ten health­care for the peo­ple yet? The democ­rats aren’t push­ing for it is why. AOC is a fraud she was sup­posed to push the Dems to the left and get us health­care. Now she calls Pelosi “Mama Bear”. Great, “now’s not the time” to push for a vote on health­care but it is the time to push for tril­lions for infra­struc­ture?
We rank some­where around 13th in the world in infra­struc­ture, I think peo­ple hav­ing health­care is a lit­tle more impor­tant.
So sick of every­one’s blind loy­al­ty to “their” side.
I’m here to say f**k your side unless you are on the side of the peo­ple, and that side sure as hell isn’t the democ­rats or the repub­li­cans. Quit fight­ing with each oth­er and wake up. Let’s make these bas­tards who have health­care for life serve and lis­ten to us like they’re sup­posed to.
They know you’ll nev­er crit­i­cize their side because you’re to busy hat­ing the oth­er side. Stop wor­ry­ing about how messy your neigh­bors house is when you need to clean yours. They’re both owned by the same cor­po­ra­tions.
I don’t give a s**t if you don’t agree with me because just like you and your blind sup­port for peo­ple who don’t care about you, I can­not be swayed.
Destroy the 2 par­ty sys­tem, it no longer serves us.

Takes a Trump sup­port­er to make an igno­rant ‘obser­va­tion’ like that. Maybe he does­n’t want to hear it because it speaks direct­ly to his big­otry and all the evil heart­less polit­i­cal pun­dits whom he wor­ships who love keep­ing all their favorite so-called ‘unde­sir­ables’ oppressed. RATM has amaz­ing mes­sages in their music that EVERYONE and every gen­er­a­tion NEEDS to hear. I don’t even care for that genre of music but I feel rage is THEE BEST rock band in the game BECAUSE OF their anti-estab­lish­ment mes­sages.

what are you even talk­ing about? you’re just lis­ten­ing non­sen­si­cal nick­names. the far right are fas­cists. objec­tive­ly. you don’t need to like the dems. but in this day and age, it’s either amer­i­ca and REAL patri­o­tism or the end of democ­ra­cy and fas­cism until we crum­ble. if every­one actu­al­ly did some research, or like, just THOUGHT before they spoke we wouldn’t be in this sit­u­a­tion. do bet­ter.

Tom’s stance has refused to slide to the right with the rest of the spec­trum. His stance has been clear to me since 7th grade. lol

Don’t know how you imag­ined that AOC was much of any­thing but Hillary 2.0. Right down to wear­ing large eye­glass­es try­ing to appear to be wicked smart. D is dif­fer­ent than R, though. But the peo­ple try­ing to rape you will always be more ded­i­cat­ed to their job than the peo­ple try­ing to stop you from being raped will be ded­i­cat­ed to theirs.