The Ones That They Call Nazis, Part Ii
...She’d long ago come to realize
that children stood by you for life,
while jobs cut you on barest whims,
she had simply invested right.
What was the use of having choice
if you couldn’t pick your own path?
This couple that they called ‘sexist,’
had built a happiness that lasts.
It was around election time,
and the candidates made their pitch,
in my town a former plumber
had put certain people in fits.
They yelled and screamed at all his stops,
protested him vehemently,
all over the net they decried
that this plumber was a Nazi!
Literally worse than Hitler,
he’d bring us into a dark age!
and anyone who heard him speak
was a bastard promoting hate!
To be honest, their rhetoric
had gotten me somewhat intrigued,
could any person be that bad?
I went to a rally to see.
The man then spent the whole hour
talking of our natural rights,
how men were slaves if they weren’t free,
that we should tolerate no slights.
How if we went soft, one by one,
all would be soon taken away,
that government was built to serve,
and beyond that, it had no say.
He spoke of how true citizens
never gave up their sovereignty,
how power drove even good folks
ever closer to tyranny.
That necessary evil was
still evil, not something to trust,
and how if the leash wasn’t held
then the dog would turn upon us.
Now I recall that the Nazis
subsumed the people to the state,
rhey had no care for rights or truth,
only that you do what they say.
That they’d compel you at gunpoint,
but this man was nothing like that,
instead, he wanted people armed
To keep in line the bureaucrats!
How could they lie so brazenly?
Did they have no honor at all?
This good man that they called ‘Nazi’
will have my vote this coming Fall.
Copyright © David Welch | Year Posted 2022
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