I think the underlying realization for The Devil Went Down to Georgia is more that Americans will listen to good music even if they don’t agree with the lyrics.

The same goes for Imagine by John Lennon, for example.

The devil came to JOHNNY, not the other way around. The moral of the story is not that it is possible to beat the devil out of ego or for glory, but that even the devil could not defeat a man completely dedicated to his pure, uncorrupted love for a craft. It’s not a story about Johnny’s hubris winning out, it’s a story about the respect one should have for genuine passion when it is lovingly applied to creativity. It is a story about the indomitable human spirit.

But okay, America bad or whatever, sure.