Welcome to the Land of the GOP

Welcome to the Land of the GOP

Welcome to the world of Trump

                Where rapists are moral exemplars, who can do no wrong,

Where it is normal to send your dollars to billionaires and give huge tax cuts to the wealthy.

Welcome to the NEW GOP

                Where greed is the essential characteristic and lying is a requisite

Where black is white, wrong is right and totalitarianism is the new aim.

Welcome to Project 2025

                Where the blueprint for the end of democracy lurks,

Where the taking over of all federal agencies, schools and police is normalised.

Welcome to the Evangelical Extremes,

                Where women know their place and do not speak,

Where they know their place in the kitchen and bedroom and pop out babies.

Welcome to the Conservative Right,

                Where books are banned and gays banished,

Where apple pie and family values hide a myriad of hypocrisy and filth.

Welcome to the NEW America,

                A land of white supremacists with guns,

Bible-bashing misogynists, burning crosses and a new form of slavery.

Welcome to the land of MAGA,

                Where we burn the world with relish,

Kow-tow to billionaires and tyrants and conform to patriotic thuggery.

Welcome to the Age of Conspiracy,

                Where the more outrageous the lie the more it is believed,

The flat earth society, alien lizards and baby-eating democrats.

Welcome to the Future,

                A land where the billionaires call the shots

And the minions fanatically fight for the right to oppress minorities.

You’re welcome to it!

Opher – 3.11.2023

They sing of the land of the free where billionaires hypnotise the masses and democracy wanes. Where Hitler is revered, the holocaust denied and racism rules.

The Confederacy fought a civil war in an attempt to keep their slaves and now that shame-ridden rag is raised as a rebel rallying call and racism is normalised.

This is the land where QANON and conspiracy rule; where experts are derided and immigrants like Musk and Murdock are the only acceptable people. Where Presidents build walls to keep immigrants out but it is OK to marry them.

This is the land of guns, hatred, division and conformity where patriotism is a weapon.

This is the land of superstition where education is suspect – who wants an educated, thinking populace – keep the minions dumb.

Keep the minions dumb.

They can’t even read this!

Who benefitted from Brexit!

They say you have to follow the money!

OK – after Brexit the Rich got a lot Richer and the Poor got a lot Poorer.

The rich funded and ran the Leave campaign. They really did not want their tax fiddling schemes stopped did they?

They set about using the media to create a massive propaganda campaign.

They tried to convince us that it was the immigrants on minimum wages making us poor not the wealthy exploiting us for profit. They used racism.

Then we have Russia…….

The reality of Privatisation!

Once upon a time we all owned our water, gas, electricity, railways and post office. Then Margaret Thatcher had a great idea. She thought she could sell everything at a knock down price and pocket the money.

Once upon a time we paid for our services and the profits went to create better services or went back to us.

Once upon a time we controlled what the CEOs were paid!

Once upon a time we were in charge!

Now the companies are run by foreign investors!

Now the prices have gone through the roof.

Now, instead of investing, the money goes to overpaid CEOs and their ridiculous multimillion bonuses and foreign investors!

Thames Water is a good example. We are paying over the top to make people very rich! We get a far worse service for a lot more!

Poetry – We’ve Finally Made It!!

We’ve Finally Made It!!

We’ve made it!

The concrete and plastic

Have created a paradise!

We have everything we want!

We’ve got it made!

Drowning in goods;

More than we can ever need

At a price we can afford!

We’ve made the grade!

Stacking shelves

Delivering goods and serving coffee!

On a wage we can barely survive.

Opher 24.7.2019

Well as Roy Harper once said ‘the eyes that are guiding society’s ludicrous aim’. Those eyes are the wealthy who wish to sell us their products, who exploit our labour, cut down trees, clear forests and are creating a plastic hell-hole.

I hope we’ll all be happy there in our sterile loneliness.

I think we are in great danger of forgetting all the things that really count – the love of friendship, love, nature and the beauty of the natural world.