What we’re seein’ here, in this election year
Is the outrageous becoming
routine, the absurd becoming the normal seen
Is repugnance as our sought
after standard, what was once repulsive the optimum shown
Is the ridiculous as
commonplace, incompetence and ignorance proudly worn
Is hatefulness what is
preferred and intolerance the goal
As eyes burn bright with
entitled anger, leads to the death of our nation’s soul
And what is shown with the intolerance,
the bigotry and hatred from manufactured fear
in full recognition that Reprobates are in
office here.
With misogyny so seductive,
and bigotry our nation’s natural base
And classism is just our way
of life, homophobia and sexism rampant in this place
Xenophobia an art form,
Ethnocentrism our value
A very false sense of
supremacy and entitlement puffs up the tattered egos of the shallow
Nationalistic intolerance
aimed at anyone not like us
If we can’t buy them,
we’ll occupy them or destroy them, build walls and deport the rest
Leaders reflect the lowest
form, rather than lead us to places higher
The Reprobates in office
use everyone toward their desire
Exploitation overseas, taking
jobs away from our own
When they’ve brought
everyone to their knees their satisfaction will be fully known
Defining immorality in solely
sexual terms, regulating everyone’s bedroom and body
While encouraging the
immorality of Greed so that the few can lord over the many
Suppressing voters over here,
cuz they might vote for those over there
While claiming that voter
fraud’s at stake, though we can’t find any anywhere
Putting up barriers for poor,
minorities and the young to vote will surely win elections
While de-regulating
firearm sales – cutting out all regulations, aids their natural selection
Implementing Stand Your
Ground laws that we know simply mean OPEN SEASON
While restricting our
ability to sue because we have to keep justice within reason
What we’re seein’ here, in this election year Is
full of pros and cons…
The cons… con – servatives,
NOT conservationists
The con everything in the
obstructionist Con-gress
The regressive faction, some
who should be Con-victs
The con – unity, con-
integrity, con – tolerance, for only their con-stituency
The con – equity, con-
justice, con- fairness party
And the pros…
Pro-choice perhaps, but not a
choice of more than two parties
Pro-gressive, but with
re-gressive tendancies…
Pro- establishment,
pro-machine, pro-institutional party some
Pro- getting and staying in
power, pro- oligarch, pro-pluto – crat
these Demagogue
democrats
Pro- keeping them in their
place, bringing super-predators to heel…
while relying on the
race to help them seal the election deal
Pro- sending their jobs
overseas… while claiming they want for their ease
Pro- whatever gets the vote,
until elected – that’s the joke
a “lesser of evils” is
their claim – holding voters hostage is the game
One they call FAR LEFT, one
is FAR RIGHT
Some claim to be in the
Center, but we know that ain’t right…
Different stripes on the same
Zebra, not making others’ lives better
Represent only the few,
not the many, no, not ever…
Some claim they want change, tired of always the same
But then vote for the
same lame old lines, the same names
I heard once that to do the same things time and time again
Expecting a different,
better outcome is insane
Few are truly for CHANGE, most want to keep it the same
One alone a true public
servant… for others power and wealth - the aim
While our young men lie shot
down, dying in the streets
And so many are held
down, held back and held out
Folk voting for the lesser of
evils again, even for one who helped bring this about
What we’re seein’ here, in this election year Has
not changed a thing, I fear
The exploitation overseas
while bringing our workers to their knees
The genocide of our kids on
the street, taking from the poor who have nothing to eat
Keeping the middle class and
poor class down, while a few at the top still hand out the crowns
The giving of welfare to
corporate heads, as the bonuses flow the middle class nearly dead
Always got more money for
another war, paid for by the blood of our brown and black poor
Padding the pockets of the powerful
wealth, while taking away from our elderly’s health
Scapegoating immigrants,
unions and the poor as in anger the ignorant learn to abhor
Manipulating the masses,
pitting us against them, so that those wealthy powerful stay at the helm
Drinking poisoned water,
breathing poisoned air the ground we live on poisoned everywhere
Someone making quick profit
on killing everyone stuff, polluting always more cuz it’s never enough
Privatizing prisons and
privatizing schools, make it for profit, exploit all the fools
Using the locked up and
locked out for free labor while talking of blessings, prosperity and favor
The 1% with 60%, the 99 left
with 40
In the most powerful,
wealthy nation supposed to be ruled by the majority
Pitting those with little
means against those with even less, stirring up hatred among us
So they can stay on top
of the mess
It’s Capitalism we love not
Democracy, not Justice
The Oligarchs and
Plutocrats claiming patriotism are the most treacherous
The 90’s acronym with an N or
the 2,000’s with a T
are all designed to
exploit them, exploit you and exploit me
For the profit of the few they
will frack up the whole country
as their cronies kill
everyone for the sake of more money
As climate change is denied
like affordable healthcare
income disparities widen
and unequal education leave many in despair
The promise of more of this
status quo will drive more into the ground
unaffordable housing,
unavailable food, undrinkable water abound
There is only ONE HOPE for us in this world, in this nation
That rational, reasonable,
loving folk stand up, speak out and get counted
Because, my friends, we must be our OWN
salvation…
Jamie Kaufman
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