DEMAGOGUE
…to invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph
is a talent worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
~ Aristophanes, Clouds
Despite the velvet rhetoric and carefully coated
Evasion of the simple truth (what is truth)-
Man’s heart is desperately wicked
And deceitful above all things -
Guile is the blueprint of his tongue
Often spoken softly so we lean in
Grasping to hear the whispered promises of his words
Until whispers evolve into the roar of tyranny
Enslaving both the unwary and not.
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