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Electioneering

Electioneering Somewhere in the mind of America is the simmering consciousness of legislative morality… where the politicians and rhetoricians are more than magical magicians I see you America, with your brains spinning and your eyes rolling Fingers wagging in blame game naming and shaming Hypocrisy is your middle name in misled Middle America where the Middle Class is lost in the shuffle of meddling rhetoric spewed by mewed misanthropic women and men in new pants and suits and suitpants I see you looking out to the horizon, heading for the future and looking for the past on a TV screen where extreme left and extreme right don’t battle for Middle America… – where Americans meet in the middle and talk sense to each other – …they battle for radical ideologies that alienate the middle and satisfy the fringe who binge on the ‘beautiful’ chaos of the moment and the month and the electioneering year Stump speeches, primaries, media polls, emails, and end goals – what does it mean? Was it Goethe who told us to “speak a few reasonable words” every day? Do we hear them? When America takes his advice it may be too late – It is too late – Is it too late? Too late to satiate and placate the masses of Middle America? Electioneering in an election year; engineering for a future too near…

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Date: 11/12/2016 7:29:00 AM
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Date: 11/10/2016 7:32:00 PM
Wonderful thought provoking poem full of truth.
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