People Think With Their Glands – what you really voted for!

Those who lost their homes in fires, floods and hurricanes voted for more fires, floods and hurricanes.

Those who wanted to drain the swamp of corruption in government voted to increase the corruption.

Those who claim to be moral voted for immorality.

Seniors voted to gut Social Security.

Those who have nothing voted to have less.

Men voted for their wives and daughters to die from miscarriages.

The poor voted to give more of their money to billionaires.

Immigrants voted for deportation raids.

Those who wanted freedom voted for control.

Poor people voted for tax cuts for billionaires.

Those who are sick voted to be left to die.

Those who bemoan the quality of education voted for cuts to schools.

Women voted to have fewer rights than men.

Women voted to give their bodies to the State.

Police voted for a convicted felon.

Those who wanted accountability made a criminal unaccountable.

Those who claim not to be racists empowered white supremacists.

Women voted to be second-class.

Blacks voted for white supremacists.

Those who claim to be patriots turned their backs on their allies.

Those who claim to hate socialism voted to suck up to communist Putin and Jong Um.

Yesterday they gave away democracy for a reduction in gas.

Help is coming! (for the rich).

Tax cuts for the rich! That’s the answer!

Poetry – Bribes and Lies

Bribes and Lies

Bribes and lies,

Hype and bravado,

More Bosch

Than they’ve got in the Prado.

Divided in hate,

Stoking the fire,

Populist tyrant

Thrown in the mire.

Democracy ditched

In a torrid coup

As Cummings’ thugs

Dissolve the glue.

General election

Or Brexit extension

As austerity crisis

Gets hardly a mention.

They think we’ll forget

The savage Tory cuts

As they sink the economy

And the country shuts.

Opher 4.9.2019

How do the Tories manage to persuade a substantial segment of the population to vote for them when they manifestly do not represent the interests of those people? Do they think everyone forgets the years when they have hammered both the poor and public services while giving tax cuts to the wealthy?