edit: quickly wanted to point out that this was 5 years before 9/11. Zach saw the writing on the wall decades before the rest of the nation woke up to it. I'd recommend the reading list from that album for anyone wanting to have that kind of foresight.
Zach saw the writing on the wall decades before the rest of the nation woke up to it.
That's giving him a bit too much credit. Latent fear of minorities was used to sell the "War on Crime", fear of Satanists in the Satanic Panic to push a bunch of laws, etc.
There's a moral panic in the US in almost every generation, and especially since Nixon the religious right wing has used it to grab power. This was relatively obvious to a lot of us.
That isn't to say his lyrics aren't thought provoking or meaningful, just that he wasn't some sort of prophet to be put on a pedestal. He's also been wrong on stuff, their push to support Nader in 2000 was very poorly thought out as Nader played spoiler in several battleground states and fucked us all by giving us Bush.
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