In Our Great Republic
In our great republic purporting to be free,
We have a choice of candidates: A, B, and sometimes C,
While both major parties are owned and corrupt,
We choose some lesser evil and boast we did our part,
Our part in rubber-stamping the tyranny of elites,
Who claim to represent us until their rule's complete.
Sometimes another candidate comes forth to rock the boat,
To actually take actions for which the people vote,
To end the wars and lawlessness of the entrenched deep state--
Such candidate inspires both loyalty and hate--
But that's the price of freedom, sometimes you have to fight
The oligarchs and the media for working people's rights.
They'll smear such a candidate with endless stream of lies
Of racism, homophobia, transphobia, as they try
To charge him with the crimes that they commit each day--
Those wealthy lying hypocrites fight to the death to stay
On top of wealth and power, where laws do not apply,
While people earn slave wages until the day they die.
September 25, 2023
--Alexander Shaumyan
The Door: Selected Poems
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As bad as things are today for people, particularly here in the United States, so polarized over there so-called political loyalties, times are better for everyone on the planet than they ever have been.
All these people that are so worried need to be dropped in King Arthur's court like the Connecticut Yankee. They then would realize that landing in medieval England with the romanticized view of that terrible, ugly place and time, would make them want to return to the 21st-century as soon as possible.
I remember smoke-filled rooms. I'm so glad they're gone.
You made me wonder if we would be complaining so much if Gore had become president instead of losing his clear majority vote to the corrupt electoral college system. I probably would have solar power on my roof a long time ago instead of struggling to get it at any cost.
Ron