\n\t\t<\/aside>\nIf anger is a political medium, conservatives have mastered it. They use both their own anger to rally people and co-opt anger from their opponents to fuel their backward agenda. Anger is at the core of why they continually miss or ignore the anti-establishment messages from art they consume. But that strong emotion is also why their movement appeals to so many people: It\u2019s blindingly red.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cTo expose and close the doors on those who try \/ To strangle and mangle the truth \/ \u2018Cause the circle of hatred continues unless we react.\u201d<\/p>\n
The ability to harness and repurpose rage has been at the heart of conservative messaging for many years. But there was a time when conservatives didn\u2019t have full ownership of anger.<\/p>\n
Bob Dylan is ferocious on \u201cMasters of War,\u201d possessed by the spirit of unrest following the U.S.\u2019 increasing involvement in the Cold War. \u201cYou hide in your mansion \/ While the young people\u2019s blood \/ Flows out of their bodies \/ And is buried in the mud.\u201d Dylan has a sharp pen, and he isn\u2019t afraid to use it like a sword.<\/p>\n
Nina Simone\u2019s \u201cMississippi Goddam\u201d is similarly enraged. The same spirit that made Dylan unrecognizable in \u201cMasters of War\u201d is burning Simone alive. Simone emphatically slaps down on her piano keys while the drums lend a sense of urgency, galloping from one verse to the next. In the most crucial line of the song, \u201cOh but this whole country is full of lies \/ You\u2019re all gonna die and die like flies,\u201d Simone restrains from letting all her anger out. Her tone is measured but her commentary is not.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/aside>\nBoth songs are effective protest songs, communicating anger through simple aesthetics \u2014 a guitar and harmonica for Dylan and drums and piano for Simone. Somewhere along the way, we\u2019ve lost access to leftist rage, or more worryingly, the right has learned to subdue it. The question then is: How do we take the power back?<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/aside>\n
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