We sensed\u00a0the voice\u00a0of reaction<\/p>\n
but we were still too busy\u00a0to tell.<\/p>\n
It was born from unconscious\u00a0inaction,<\/p>\n
and\u00a0there was no warning bell<\/p>\n
as it planned it’s sickly\u00a0hell.<\/p>\n
But before we noticed\u00a0it had begun<\/p>\n
the flag of Fascism blocked\u00a0our sun.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
We watched as voices spitting bile<\/p>\n
grew stronger from our fears.<\/p>\n
The Age of Want had been on trial<\/p>\n
for far too many years<\/p>\n
and out of all those tears<\/p>\n
the blame was aimed at innocents:<\/p>\n
the marginalised, the transients.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
It demanded all the people<\/p>\n
be subjected to\u00a0it\u2019s cause.<\/p>\n
Public office and the steeple<\/p>\n
all complicit\u00a0in their\u00a0flaws<\/p>\n
putrid putty\u00a0in their claws.<\/p>\n
But Lefties, gays and refugees<\/p>\n
would feel\u00a0their vicious\u00a0allegories.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The Face of Fascism\u2019s cancer spread<\/p>\n
from Facebook to\u00a0the street.<\/p>\n
The artists tried to warn the dead<\/p>\n
the activists\u00a0tried to meet<\/p>\n
till the canons had them beat.<\/p>\n
Laws\u00a0were passed and truth\u00a0betrayed.<\/p>\n
Progress\u00a0was\u00a0again delayed.<\/p>\n
The Blackboots hit the vulnerable<\/p>\n
with slanders, myths and hate.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Historians said: \u201cIncredible!<\/p>\n
We witnessed Hitler\u2019s fate\u2026<\/p>\n
now he\u2019s knocking at our gate?<\/p>\n
But how has this again occurred<\/p>\n
when Nuremberg had them interred?\u201d<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
See, the thing about \u2018democracy\u2019:<\/p>\n
it hides beneath\u00a0itself.<\/p>\n
The psychopathic plutocracy<\/p>\n
must shield\u00a0it\u2019s ill-got wealth<\/p>\n
with cunning and with stealth.<\/p>\n
And\u00a0when the mask is ripped away<\/p>\n
it starts to rule another way.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
So when you see a Muslim girl<\/p>\n
get hammered on a train<\/p>\n
or when you hear an idiot hurl<\/p>\n
racist slogans at your brain<\/p>\n
threats of violence, fear and pain.<\/p>\n
Remember: that\u2019s how Hitler started.<\/p>\n
Remember that for\u00a0those departed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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