click a star to vote
Dec 30th 2018!⃝The song is just anti authoritarian/totalitarian. It doesn’t attack either the left or the right. It’s intentionally vague so you can place your most hated politician (Trump, Clinton, Putin, whomever) in the role of the dictator.
There also may be some shots taken at collectivist thinking, given the constant repitition of the phrase “Get back in line” every time the protagonist (who seems to be a part of the “machine”) seems to have an individual thought of their own, and the line “Harvesting you to feed the machine” could be a metaphor for “Dying to help your cause”.
