The Government You Elect Is The Government You Deserve
Politicians, press, pundits, and performers. People who are not us. Who don't live like us. Who don't know how we live. Or care.
They know we know all this. They smirk and shrug.
They make John Fetterman a United States Senator.
They make Newark, New Jersey a Sister City with a city in the nation of Kailasa (a non-existent nation created by a scam artist).
They mock Hans Blix, for not being able to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
They claim that charter schools threaten the success of inner city public schools.
They insist that the southern border is not open.
They say everybody who sashays across the Rio Grande is entitled to vote.
They proclaim that America has the most powerful military in the world (notwithstanding Vietnam and Afghanistan).
They teach our children that killing a baby as his or her head begins to crown is women's health care.
They replace facts with gossip and opinions, in what they call news.
They speak a language of hatred, division, and fear.
They define us by our skin color and genitalia.
The live by the motto: Do as I say, not as I do.
They preach the lyrics of Imagine: "Imagine there's no heaven, It's easy if you try, No hell below us, Above us, only sky".
They tell us to believe that unity and equity are their top priorities.
They extol One Person One Vote, while acting exactly opposite.
They increasingly acquire a greater percentage of our nation's wealth and power.
They are accountable to nobody.
"The government you elect is the government you deserve." [Thomas Jefferson]