It's not the right time to be sober
Now the idiots have taken over
Spreading like a social cancer, is there an answer?
Mensa membership conceding
Tell me why and how are all the stupid people breeding
Watson, it's really elementary
The industrial revolution
Has flipped the bitch on evolution
The benevolent and wise are being thwarted, ostracized, what a bummer
The world keeps getting dumber
Insensitivity is standard and faith is being fancied over reason
Darwin's rolling over in his coffin
The fittest are surviving much less often
Now everything seems to be reversing, and it's worsening
Someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool
Now angry mob mentality's no longer the exception, it's the rule
And I'm starting to feel a lot like Charlton Heston
Stranded on a primate planet
Apes and orangutans that ran it to the ground
With generals and the armies that obeyed them
Followers following fables
Philosophies that enable them to rule without regard
There's no point for democracy when ignorance is celebrated
Political scientists get the same one vote as some Arkansas inbred
Majority rule, don't work in mental institutions
Sometimes the smallest softest voice carries the grand biggest solutions
What are we left with?
A nation of god-fearing pregnant nationalists
Who feel it's their duty to populate the homeland
Pass on traditions
How to get ahead religions
And prosperity via simpleton culture
The idiots are taking over
This song, once again by NOFX, shows the band's discontent with Americans. This song tells us that, literally what the title presents, the idiots have taken over. This can be seen as just people in general, but knowing the band's history and stances on social issues, I am going to go out on a limb and say that they are talking about the people in politics especially. They are saying that the 'idiots', the politicians that basically doom our country every time they get elected, are taking over the 'idiots', the people who keep voting for the same people over and over again into office. They are also saying that, again, America is not being proactive in the fight for equality, and that generation after generation it just keeps getting worse because we are not learning from our mistakes. I feel that this is one of NOFX's big messages; we need to change.
-Megan Keane
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