The New Norm?

Americans wonder what is the new norm

As the American spirit for greatness seems to be reborn

Even as from the Swamp and Congress gridlock is the prevailing norm

Fueled by a loss of civility and compromise we all should mourn

Each side wishing for another victory at all cost ribbon to one’s chest adorn

Anyone who disagrees in the PC culture is ruthlessly scorned

We once were two nations one black one white still two but now into left and right torn

Any effort to have rational and civil discussion quickly becomes stillborn

Speak out against the PC police and the left quickly the race card warns

No wonder the art of compromise lies on a bed of thorns

Total depressed, rejected in pain hurt and forlorn

The only notes we hear is either charge or taps played from the partisan horns

The only way to win an argument is not with the best idea but with the biggest bullhorn

September 28, 2017Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet 

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