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AMERICAN POLITICS
Freedom is Over
A poem
Our freedom of speech
Is a dwindling right.
Will other nations help us to fight
The rise of hate and spite?
Orwell predicted it
And now we are here
A world where evil is good
And good is misunderstood.
Where calling out a salute to fascism
Is suddenly taboo
We all saw it.
You did, too.
A land where criminals are pardoned
For carrying out the wrath of the hardened.
This is hardly the land of the free
Our Founding Fathers promised it would be.
The teachings of Jesus they claim to uphold
Are not in any Bible I’ve ever read.
Some perverted rendition they uphold instead.
Where hate is love
And love is hate.
If you’re white, male, and rich
You have nothing to fear.
The rest of us will be distracted