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Bullies, Dictators, and Potentates

By what perverse mental capacity Does the bully gain satisfaction In administering agony upon another By what human deficiency Does the dictator righteously believe Their dictates should circumscribe a citizenry By what delusional misconception Does a people follow in obedience A potentate’s decrees of servitude to state By what level of constitutional dismantling Does “We the People” have to be unglued Before our comrades vote to remove potentates, dictators, and bullies

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Date: 5/25/2020 8:43:00 PM
The abused returns to the abuser -- Stockholm Syndrome, I think they call it. And so it is with us ... Just look at the Soviet Union. Its citizens carp about freedom and vote for Putin. Go figure. :) gw
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