When you’re lower on the totem pole, you’re more vulnerable.
And at different roles from those who ride high.
Those who represent the top five.
They are a different breed.
Yet it’s in them that the man on the street puts his belief.
Supporting their economic side, looking for money to thrive.
Letting protections and lifts to consumers wane.
Many not recognizing the harm to themselves.
Or the risks that return to them in the end.
Too late, by the time there is a consequence to that mistake.
If they had known that the consequence would be so great,
would they have been more considerate?
When you choose – even for yourself – with a narrow mind.
You may luck out on a good find.
But there is also a chance that you will have to pay a big fine.
When you choose to include, or use a wide net.
So as many who can, will get.
Or at least try to be fair to as many tiers.
There is less chance for regret.
When service goes to more layers than one.
There is even more chance for you to be the beneficiary of some.
Why gamble with people’s lives when you can negotiate a fairer price?
Why embrace evil and dismiss opportunities for nice?
Specificity and homogeneity can stagnate or bring limits.
And only the top tiers benefit in a pyramid.
For years people in the middle and bottom
have been trying to fraternize with those at the top.
But to get where they’ve gone,
you can’t depend on their hand-outs and trickle-down.
From the right, often their advice to the masses are for piggy back rides.
Because they side with those who have no incentive to share.
They only care about how they appear.
So they do and give the bare minimum.
And the receivers feel good in the moment.
Their perceived emotional and psychological rise may bring them highs.
But it’s often not from a solid lift.
I’s usually more of an air-filled hop and skip.
As the leaders highlight and exaggerate what they’ve done.
The have-less and have-nots overestimate what they got.
Giving their feel and perceive a padded count.
Yet they gleam and glow with satisfaction.
But getting somewhere by a fantasy trip.
Or reaching your destination with a lunge after losing your grip.
Is not a convincing way of meeting your goal.
It may at times be profitable but is not always sustainable.
When you can, or are given the chance to exert your control.
Get ahead along-side values of fair and good.
You can be more powerful.
As opposed to selling your soul to achieve while compromising truth and beliefs.
When you can control your destiny, instead of leaving it to the powers that be.
You may not always reach your goal or advance
but you still can maintain a comfortable stance.
Can you be pleased that your values and morals are still in check?
Or will you be pinning for what you didn’t get?
In other words, are you willing to settle for less to keep your soul?
Or are you one to do whatever it takes to get what you feel you deserve?
Some may convince themselves that the journey doesn’t matter.
Once you get the answers you were looking for.
It’s for the score.
All else can be ignored.
But for those with morality and integrity –
It’s only in dire straits that you will use nefarious means to meet a desired end.
But now in the Republican arena that is not the trend.
Even when there is a more humane path, they still choose the bloodbath.
Republicans brought cruelty to their politics and didn’t limit it.
A deliberate spread, just as with Covid.
Never minding gears, they forge ahead.
Their aim has been to politicize for their gain.
With no restraint, they infiltrate.
From individuals to systems.
Religious, education, socialization.
Every aspect of our lives modified.
Why on earth have people relinquished control of that group?
A National scoop.
And enough in the Nation choose to keep them loose.
From their first taste of blood.
Not an easy rinse out.
They go for what they crave.
Even if they create a permanent wave.
They are not ashamed to say their pursuits are like a revered sport.
With an open invitation to their court.
They call themselves supreme.
They live-stream.
And even when it’s filth that they bring, they are built a stage for performing.
While they headline the liberals as harsh.
Seemingly obsessed with their “trash”.
But at least the left is into keeping it real.
There is no deliberate or consistent lie about content and fees.
They show who and what they are.
They don’t hide behind “alternative facts”.
They may engage in fantasy but they don’t create an alternate reality.
They don’t demand your loyalty or swindle you of your money.
They are into plays, not playing games.
For entertain, not to embarrass, shame or blame.
They don’t expect you to tune in 24/7.
Nor do they unreasonably demand your attention.
There is an end to their show.
You can leave and go home.
They don’t force their way or insist they must stay.
When it’s time, they leave.
They aim to relieve and try to avoid bringing grief.
They often accept as they get.
That’s been the difference between the right and the left.
America(ns) will not be experiencing a smooth ride anytime soon.
As long as Republicans continue as they do.
Steering the paths to dangerous routes.
Blocking mirrors, distracting drivers.
Deliberately spreading them thin.
Creating havoc within, when there is already so much happening.
That’s what happens when you erase regret from your vocabulary.
And empathy is only for hide, not for seek.
For them when you don’t show tough, it means you’re weak.
Those who see Republicans for who they are.
And still rate them with 4-5 stars.
When will their minds ever bend?
Will it take a close friend or acquaintance to be dismissed or deemed dead?
Could that be the fix that would get their empathy clock to tick?
Do they need a direct hit, else their belief, feel and perceive will not shift?
For some, that’s already been done.
But they’ve continued with stubborn.
So it’s a choice, not a by-the-way or an accident.
The consequence we get is what is meant.
Because some of the nightmarish scenes that we’ve come to see,
didn’t just happen to be.
It’s been the plan of Republicans and many Americans didn’t vote to stop.
They could have made them a flop.
But Republicans are given a pass, they are being waved through.
Given excuse after excuse for their doings.
As they steal from the pot.
Spend a lot.
Show no care at all.
Watch as democracy falls.
Put stabs in the backs of neighbors and friends.
Yet they all choose to not wake up and have this nightmare end.