Why is Donald Trump willing to take a pay cut to have power and prestige?<\/p>\n
Working for chump change?<\/p>\n
Running for President was a good strategy for selling the book he didn’t write.<\/p>\n
What now?<\/p>\n
Did he lose a game of truth or dare and the dare was to run for president?<\/p>\n
The chumps that will not change are the American People –<\/p>\n
H.L Menken called us the “boobocracy”<\/p>\n
Nobody ever went broke underestimating our intelligence.<\/p>\n
There’s a sucker born every minute.<\/p>\n
Ha Ha.<\/p>\n
How cleverly we make our wry, detached comments,<\/p>\n
Showing our superior detachment and philosophical control,<\/p>\n
As the ship of state sinks.<\/p>\n
Now that people know crazy lies and hate mongering sells, we will have it \u00a0back again.<\/p>\n
The people who called Lincoln a monkey will have access to youtube and go on CNN for interviews.<\/p>\n
Other reality TV stars will run of office, and eventually some will win,<\/p>\n
And we might not notice the difference,<\/p>\n
As the sideshow distracts us from the drowning earth,<\/p>\n
The bodies riddled with bullets,<\/p>\n
The jobless young black men fermenting in rage on the corners.<\/p>\n
The billionaires playing us for suckers<\/p>\n
Playing us off against each other.<\/p>\n
The disabled against reproductive freedom,<\/p>\n
Unions, the source of the middle class, against the middle \u00a0class.<\/p>\n
Shut your eyes real real tight and look.<\/p>\n
The strange orange man is still there,<\/p>\n
and Republicans, selling their souls for victory,<\/p>\n
have not disavowed him.<\/p>\n
And someone, reading these words, will find the controversial.<\/p>\n
“Yeh, but Hillary the liar who ordered the hit on Benghazi”<\/p>\n
they begin.<\/p>\n
Truth is split \u00a0into two camps,<\/p>\n
Held hostage by ideology,<\/p>\n
The facts themselves are for sale.<\/p>\n
In fifty years the low areas of Oakland will be underwater.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, in the eyes of those in a position to stop it,<\/p>\n
Those areas are not the best part of town.<\/p>\n
Let’s not let these things upset us, though,<\/p>\n
As long as the cable and the internet are working.<\/p>\n
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