{"id":849,"date":"2004-11-03T16:54:13","date_gmt":"2004-11-03T23:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=849"},"modified":"2004-11-03T16:54:13","modified_gmt":"2004-11-03T23:54:13","slug":"satans-upcoming-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2004\/11\/03\/satans-upcoming-comeback\/","title":{"rendered":"Satan&#8217;s Upcoming Comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"002984\"><\/a>Salon or Slate or some such Internet site of renown published an article last Summer to the effect that, to a particular narrow age group Reagan&#8217;s Legacy was inspiring a whole slew of butt-kicking politically charged punk rock.  I confess that my awareness of that sub-genre more or less begins and ends with The Dead Kennedys, but various other &#8220;hardcore&#8221; blasts run through my head when I think about it.<\/p>\n<p>But I picture a fatigue that comes eventaully.  Nixon is re-elected in 1972 to a resounding landslide.  The politically charged music that permeated the Vietnam era just&#8230; stops.  Place your faith in McGovern, and the Idealism will kill you.<\/p>\n<p>The Youth of America thus places their faith in Satan&#8230; in the guise of Alice Cooper, Led Zeppelin, and others.<\/p>\n<p>During the Reagan Administration, Satan flourished.  It got to be so bad that Al Gore had to ban him.  There seemed to be a slap in the face going on toward Jerry Falwells and Pat Robertsons of the nation.  &#8220;Sure, you have your guys in power, but you ain&#8217;t stopping Satan, now are you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It went beyond the usual suspects of Ozzy Osbourne and Judas Priest.  Take that Wham video with George Michael prancing around in short shorts and those dancers with &#8220;Choose Life&#8221; shirts.  Very subversive to stick homosexuality next to conservative &#8220;pro-life&#8221; messages.<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of an election that evidentally turned on a massive rightwing turnout marching against gays, and a promise to pump the flag just a little harder&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re about due for a Satanic Uprising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salon or Slate or some such Internet site of renown published an article last Summer to the effect that, to a particular narrow age group Reagan&#8217;s Legacy was inspiring a whole slew of butt-kicking politically charged punk rock. I confess that my awareness of that sub-genre more or less begins and ends with The Dead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}