Republicans have been working for years.
Encouraging lobbyists and big money politics.
Then from the Federalist Society to the Tea Party.
Using so many unsavory tactics.
That became their common practice.
To achieve goals in line with White Supremacists.
History has shown that both sides have had the patience.
To lay in wait until someone like Trump changes the equation.
And with him leading the Nation –
He made all their doings more palatable to Society.
Acceptable to people’s reality.
We’ve lived to see the results.
Beyond politics to the creation of a cult.
We’re in a dangerous place-
When we can’t accept truth, even in our face
So what we don’t want to be, is erased.
Delusions become the reality.
Rejecting science, fact and history.
Losing the need for objectivity, honesty and unity.
As we hold to believe, feel and perceive.
But believe, feel and perceive aren’t facts.
Yet our lives go on without acceptance of that.
And people’s choices are even more deliberate.
To reflect which side they choose to associate.
The effects of Extreme Right Wing Conservatism
Acceptable now as Populist or Trumpism.
Then there is the power of people’s votes.
It’s said that elections have consequences.
But most don’t make notes.
Of the outcomes intended and unintended.
Americans often resist, having their tax money
Pay for preventative or assist.
But they don’t blink an eye when much of the pie
Goes to Military or for Security.
Needed now in so many levels of our Society.
It comes with a cost, not just financial of course.
But community, social, recreational programs then end.
Less provision for the community and community experience.
More isolation and opportunities for extremism.
Continued limiting and gutting of such programs
Will only add to our societal problems.
Those who voted for money and wealth –
If the Republic fell,
Will your happiness still be tied to what you’re able to spend?
Do you still believe in Trump’s and the Republican way?
That they are the ones to save the economy today?
Why is the Country in such dire straits?
Medical and health are overwhelmed.
For the vaccine roll-out, no one was prepared,
So much economic and food insecurity.
And around the Country, there is much need for disaster relief.
Or if you voted for Trump, to say you sided with law enforcement –
Is America now more secure?
Or better yet, did the Capitol officer’s deaths,
Lead to our security improvements?
And under the Trump and Republican rule
Did America’s debt and deficit situation improve?
Debt doesn’t just come with more spending
It rises when you tag the wealthy to pay less taxes.
And Trump and his Administration didn’t hesitate to spend for themselves.
It’s as if they were given a blank check.
Yet they don’t want the Covid-19 relief to reach Main Street.
Even though it’s obvious that’s what the Country desperately needs.
Trump deliberately paved a more difficult road for Biden.
But it’s not Biden who is suffering and dying.
Biden is not the one needing Covid relief.
But he has been the one sharing the People’s grief.
He’s not the one experiencing the direct loss
Of loved ones recently gone.
And because of the viral spread,
Trump’s lies and incompetence –
There has been much damage and hurt to the people he led.
It seems that the trickle-down effects
Of which the Republicans speak, are that of their policies.
Or a lack of them, as often they have none to implement.
For the last four years, the Country was running itself.
Yet Republicans still have many in America believe
That their Party holds the answer to America’s needs.
What did America truly get with the last Party lead?
To feed on conspiracies and indulge in the Party’s hypocrisy.
And as Americans continue to buy into culture wars.
Find enemies among themselves.
The World moves on.
But for America, planning for her future is often shelved.
As she is continually being pulled back to the past.
By those who want the Confederacy to last.
Another trickle-down –
As they keep trying for the White-wash effect
America’s strength, power and growth becomes less.