Like the lines of an old 60’s
protest song
Everyone is right and everyone is
wrong
On the left the Huffington post
asserts
Trump’s rallies should be disrupted,
his supporters hurt
On the right the man with the art of
the deal
Fund raising efforts lagging to an
election win seal
Lost in the clatter of bias on both
sides of the press
An economy wobbling in great signs
of distress
On life support, hobbled by growing debt
Eight years of failure we cannot
forget
Two candidates who have set all time
honesty lows
How can this be the best upon us our
political parties can bestow?
Sound bites and barking dogs and
vicious personal attacks are not solutions to advance
While a beaten Sanders looks each day
like a Quixote armed with a broken lance
A billion at least on each side will
be likely spent
Corrupting dollars to the will of
the people bent
Watching Trump and Clinton at each
other’s throats
Means any chance of rational
compromise so remote
Somehow this republic has managed in
the past to its problems endure
How much longer possible with party
before nation as the growing lure
Matters not the party, office tenure
corrupts even the most honest holder of a political seat
Look around and among long term
office holders, mostly dishonesty you will meet
The holy grail of any office holder should
be a limit on time in office to serve
Then back to the private sector away
from the remote D.C. special interest reserve
Unless you have money or can bundle
it in large amounts obscene
You are a slave of the D.C. plantation
whose thirst for money cannot be sated or weaned
© June 11, 2016,
Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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