It's really hard to say who has become affected by a song and in what way. To assume this is not verifiable.

What is Pollyannish is going along with the doctrines of the MIC as if they were true and should not be challenged. This is incredibly naive.

Race and religion-bating have always been a pretext for aggression and war. Jews were the scapegoats in Nazi Germany as there are others today to defend institutionalized violence.

There are many erstwhile authorities on a mad-man like Hitler without any claim to really knowing his psychological and pathological make-up. He was a politician who obviously
galvanized his audience in the same way that the Right-wing of the US is doing today.

I think in some cases maybe an anti-war song brought into focus another way of looking at an issue. Who is really to say?

Frank