January 19, Vote Suppressers and Anti-Vaxxers

January 19, Vote Suppressers and Anti-Vaxxers

 

Voting means we govern by majority.

Voting is the vaccine for autocracy.

Vote suppression is an autocratic tool.

Vote suppression often kills democracy.

 

Vote suppression is an autocratic tool.

Vote suppression helps minorities to rule.

Anti-vaxxers all take Covid 19’s side,

Something anti-vaxxers should have learned in school.

 

Anti-vaxxers still line up on Covid’s side,

Even though they swell the ranks of those who died.

Vote suppressors, anti-vaxxers cling to lies,

Comfortable to lead us all to suicide.

 

Vote suppressors, anti-vaxxers act on lies,

Power hungry, anti-science, no surprise.

Servants of a virus and a narcissist,

Neither threat is hiding; wearing no disguise.

 

Servants of a virus and a narcissist,

Teach us all how badly politics can twist

Minds of humans, making them resist the facts,

And defend lies that the rational dismissed.

 

Twisted human minds deny the proven facts.

The Big Lie, as Joseph Goebbels taught, distracts  (1)

Willing minds in partisan minorities.

That’s the type of team that Donald quarterbacks.

 

  • Josef Goebbels was Adolf Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda. He is credited with saying, “If you tell a lie big enough and tell it long enough, people will eventually believe it.”  This is widely repeated although there is no definitive primary source for this attribution.  Who knew that Donald Trump researched the German literature?