The real problem with the world is not Satanism, but the lack of Covenant.
There has been a lot of noise about Satanism in the alternative media. This obsession has come around before; it runs in cycles. The last time it made so much noise was in the late 1980s (older folks can recall the cult child kidnapping scare). Every time we run through this stuff, some of the weirdest people come crawling out from under the rocks to profit from claiming to have inside information as former Satanists. (Anyone remember Mike Warke?)
The real problem is the obsession itself, not Satanism. This whole brouhaha stands on a very false assumption that most of what goes on in this world is good and godly, and that Satanism is an aberration.
Satanism is not an aberration. Insofar as it actually exists, it is merely the darkest edge of the darkness that is our human norm. The only way we can have anything good and godly is under the Covenant. As long as the world rejects the Covenant of Noah (which is assumed under the Covenant of Christ), then Satan already rules everything. The deception is that Satan’s power is restricted to special efforts, and that he does not routinely rule all the world. This is part of the doctrine that denies the Fall.
The human race is fallen. Without Biblical Law, all we have is the complex interactions of race, culture and living conditions whether we ever display anything that superficially resembles human goodness. Whatever people imagine “human goodness” to mean, it falls far short of the Creator’s requirements. A lot of “good people” are going to Hell. Unless you walk in His Covenant, you cannot have peace with Him.
Thus, all of human life is just a random mess. There is nothing to save, nothing worth preserving about American life. The noise about Satanism means nothing. People who reject the Covenant cannot do anything that pleases God. Satan doesn’t need people to worship him in order to retain full control over government and society.
Democracy is not a blessing by any means. The American mythology of a constitutional republic was sponsored by Satan. The whole thing is already run by demons because it is built on the foundation of rejecting God’s revelation. Biblical Law demands tribal feudal government as the prerequisite for any further discussion of His blessings.
Satanism functions as a distraction, a bugbear to scare fools.
Satanism is a good “controlled opposition” enemy. Folks can feel better taking down the extreme, cartoonish acts that may or may not even be taking place, while the real problem of folks being born into and continuing to live outside covenant boundaries, is still there in spades.