TOM MORELLO: "No One From RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE Has Ever Publicly Supported A Dem Or Repub Candidate. EVER."

Rage Against The Machine's message has been lost over the years. From claims that the band required masking and vaccinations to attend their reunion shows (they didn't) to the inference that the band was endorsing the Democrats in 2024 thanks to the release of their Democratic National Convention 2000 live album, it's been a mess. That and a bunch of right wing folks online totally not getting the band's message.

Now Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello is making it clear that nobody in the band has ever publicly supported a Democratic or Republican candidate. In a conversation on X, one fan said to Morello: "“Tom. I would like to personally thank you for red pilling me with your 1st album. At the time it applied to Republicans. Now it applies to the dems. Let's decentralized the power structure."

Morello responded, saying that Rage Against The Machine's message was not pro- or anti-either party. Frankly, I think we're all going to be dead and gone before Rage Against The Machine's politics are fully understood by everyone on the Internet.

"You’re welcome. But as a reminder the first RATM record came out during the Clinton administration. Then, as now, that music critiqued a capitalist/white supremacist power structure that was and is still in full effect. Currently more so than ever. Listen more closely. Like really listen and it’s quite clear.

"(Preemptive dispelling of wearying misinformation likely to flood the comments: while being sharply critical of both no good parties (Clinton/Obama/Biden’s war crimes & subservience to Wall Street and Bush/Trump war crimes, subservience to billionaires and Wall Street & general idiocy) no one from RATM has ever publicly supported a dem or repub candidate. EVER. Also, no RATM show has EVER required proof of vax or mask to attend, and anywhere you heard either of those things, or anyone who has echoed those things, is very probably lying to you about a whole lotta other stuff in the service of a racist/fascist agenda)."