Power
a poem
Listen to a recording of Power:
What do you need the law for when you can get away with using brute force, when you always have the biggest, the deadliest guns And you ride the fastest and meanest horse? What do you need courts and judges for, when you make up all your own rules, when those who protest and criticize you condemn as terrorists, traitors, and tools? What do you need hard evidence for when you attack foreign countries and kill, bomb fishing boats, abduct presidents, impose tariffs and sanctions at will? What do you need democracy for when you’ve got big, dark money on your side, when you disdain what the majority of voters think while you enable a live-streamed genocide? What do you need diplomacy for when threats and intimidation work so well, whoever resists your gun to their heads you bomb their lives into a living hell? What do you need responsibility for when it’s really some old-fashioned relic in a world where the ruthless and diabolical Can carry on as if they’re angelic. What do you need truth for when the sick fantasies and lies you invent are lauded and parroted in corporate media to manufacture mindless consent? What do you need morality for when you decide what’s wrong and what’s right, when war is peace, tyranny is freedom, down is up, and darkness is light? What do you need a conscience for when at night you sleep soundly and nice, knowing that for every atrocity and crime you’ll never pay an earthly price? What do you need compassion for? Isn’t empathy for weaklings and nuns, not for real men who send off to bleed and to die only other father’s and mothers’ sons? No, you don’t need any of that legal, moral crap when like a king, you rule with fist, sword and rod, And create in your own bloated image For all to worship a giant golden god?
One thing I derived from reading your latest is how congruent the Trump regime is with Israel/Zionism. It's all nihilism, there is no reality beyond themselves and their fictions.
I speculate when - if - Trump dies, how the media will depict him as he presumably lies - in all senses of that word - in state in the Capitol Rotunda. (Of course this assumes the country somehow survives him.) Will his despicable example finally be enough for the media to describe him as he actually was, tied with Dumbya for the absolute worst president this country has ever had, or will they resort to the usual evasions, spin, and gloss, the most recent glaring example of which being the benign, perfumed, airbrushed treatment of Cheney, responsible along with Dumbya for the deaths and ruining of lives of how many millions?
Power. In this context, it's synonymous with "Triumph of the (Ill-) Will."
Nope, you don’t need any of that legal, moral crap.
You just need a small army of obedient, selfish minions,
drunk on power and their belief in their supremacy.
And of course, a willfully blind populace,
too selfish and comfortable,
too distracted and too cowardly,
to intervene in the face of injustice,
to stand up to the bullies,
to act in accordance with the morality of their faiths.
Forgive me for the unsolicited verse , as you know all Poetry is open to interpretation, and its always at risk of overly opinionated readers such as myself, who insist to interject; Like I said on another post;
"Trump is perhaps the ultimate ‘useful idiot.’ He does the bidding of those unseen, the truly evil psychopath oligarchs who profit from division, chaos, and war.
But the real question, in my opinion, is this: How and why do so many become mindless, obedient enforcers for the idiot evil king? How is it that our neighbors, brothers, fathers, sons, and daughters are willing to betray their fellow citizens and deny their own people basic human rights and dignity? Why are they so eager to inflict pain and suffering on citizens and non-citizens alike simply because it is their job? Are they no longer human? Does the act of putting on a uniform render one inhumane, separate from one’s fellow man? Is this an innate behavior, or a learned one?"
America was never great, it was never free, it was never brave, it was never democratic, it was never the champion of rights, it was never the world`s police. It has always been the champion of belligerent supremacy, ruled by heartless psychopaths, artful in wielding the power of the masses with fear and distracting them with cheap oil and bananas.
Lets never forget, that this king rule with the fists of others. He himself is too weak and cowardly to wield a sword.