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• I wrote a poem in the comment section of this video:

  • Oh what a web we weave, when we practice to deceive
  • What a distance Trump will fall, when Jack Smith and the other upholders of truth disentangles it all!
  • What lesson have we learned, what has hindsight allowed us to see
  • about the fragility of this gift called democracy?
  • Whose ideal is that men and women are all equal another way of saying we are all sacred?
  • We pay a heavy price for not taking care of our disenfranchised sisters and brothers
  • for without job and pay they may seem powerless but the minions of poor left behind,
  • not lifted by the rising tide of unequal prosperity
  • at least have a vote to vent their anger and victimhood of being forgot
  • and comes along the next power-hungry, fork-tongued, snake-oil salesman
  • who recognizes the strength in the weakness of the minion
  • enough to exploit for personal gain the aggregate vote of the disenfranchised many
  • plunging democracy and its constitutions into crisis
  • Not only in the US, but all around the world
  • we witness the same phenomena
  • as the failings of liberal democracies that have left masses behind,
  • unintentional failings of democracy,
  • is exploited by the opportunist to seize power

  • and institute intentional forms of non-democracy

  • The bottom line (below):

  • Regardless of political ideology,
  • genuine empathy for all
  • not just in theory, but in practice
  • is the path to a just, stable and thriving society