Neither is "born in the USA" when you read the lyrics. It's strange how protest songs about a period of history become attached to that history. And how the further away we get the more fondly we remember the music and its time.

I think it's because, in our minds, we like to think we were more innocent in our youth.

To this day I still love listening to RATM. The music and message still resonates. But in my adulthood it reminds me that power never really changes.

Only those that yield it do.