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Read or Bleed, Learn or Burn People
Wake Up You Brain Dead Fuck
We gotta make change
or we are out of luck
Tired of wondering what is wrong
Read a book by my good friend Noam
I would start with Manufacturing Consent
He argues with out fault
how what we see
Is shaped by a large degree
Through the commercial interests
of corporate powers
And how government is a distraction
Whose sole purpose is to
To keep us diverted
With drama and illusions
Keep the rabble engaged
So we keep putting
Corn syrup sugar water away
You have my permission to skip a page or two
If you must Cliff Notes will do
Just Read Chomsky,
Noam Chomsky
After the rage of knowledge dims a bit
Get into some real heavy shit
Check out my friend named Zinn
He tells the truth about how this place did begin
Not from the mouth of the man in power
But from those who have been fucked over
killed, or oppressed
That means the natives
slaves
workers
women
All the people
who have been shit on
You have my permission to skip a page or two
If you must Cliff Notes will do
Just Read Zinn
Howard Zinn
You gotta begin someday
We gotta start now
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Looking for a safe liberal bubble to call home
At 10:00 PM PST on November 8th 2016
A tsunami of bile erupted from my gut
Careened up my esophagus
Burnt my throat
Filled my mouth with a puddle of acidic chum
Almost choking on this puke
I realized that the Orange Asshole had won
I went to bed scared that night
Frightened for not just my future
But what lays in store for my children
I have always been afraid of this country
Every election I see the sea of red
And know what this color stands for
It is shorthand for places where racist hatred
Misoyniginist and classist inequity
is inexerorabally bound into the fabric
of everyday interactions
Beneath the surface
a tension has always simmered below
Kept in check by the myth of democracy,
equality and freedom
Now that the it has been exposed as fraud.
I fear the anger of the oppressed will now come to a boil
I am terrified what this new era will hold for not just me, but my children . . .
Fuck this social experiment
How did it last 240 years?
Let's quit pretending that we are united
Let's quit lying about getting along
Break the arrow
Tear the flag
let the mountains divide!
Let's make a new nation
Let's start anew
Let's create a safe liberal bubble to call home
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The Pendulum has Swung
03:55
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The Pendulum Has Swung
Politics
reflect and react
to our place in time
The privilege
Of this experiment
Lies in how we choose the course
History has shown again and again
How Left goes right
Than back the other way
The Pendulum has swung (2x)
Kennedy
broke the
Protestant block
Just like Barack
Ended the
skin color lock
Now gun touting Nazis
Feel embolden to walk
The Pendulum has swung
Today I woke up to see that history has been broken
The body politic has raised their arms to embrace
A new Crypto Facisim defined by hatred of race
Naked greed and avarice is now in its place
Have we gone back in time
To when the Know-Nothing's ruled the land?
The Pendulum has swung
We took two steps forward over the last eight years
Only to stumble back seemingly overnight
A new civil war has begun
The pendulum has swung
Let's quit pretending
that our nation gets along
Let's quit lying about being united as one
The Pendulum has swung
Left coast, right coast and center
it is time to break away
Let the mountains divide
The Pendulum has swung
Let's take our space
and leave the state of red
I don't want to live
in a place defined by hate
Let's make a nation state
The Pendulum has swung
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Snake in the Grass
03:42
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Snake in the Grass
As we expressed moral outrage
And sank into disbelief
How could anyone with a shred of tact
support this repugnant racist's act?
As the shit show election de-evolved for 18 long months
The assault on decency and dignity became more pronounced
If you said you supported this act out loud
You would have been cowed
Yet we were wrong
Oh so very wrong
You were lurking in the weeds
Hiding of plain sight
You had no intention of giving up your rights
And privilege afforded by your skin
You are angry that others want in
Empowered by his venom
You the angry and disgruntled
white class
Crippled by rust belt depression
De-emasculated manufacturing might
Disenfranchised through your perceived loss of power
Shamed that your wife makes more that you do
Thinking a billionaire will do you right
He spoke to your inner baby
Like one who won't share his rattle
He connected with your inner stunted child
The angry sexist bigot doesn't want share our pie
You couldn't look me in the eye and say it
Because I would reply is that how you treat your wife or daughter?
You became a sly basking snake
who sneaks into the poll and bites
Venom on your ballot
X marks the spot
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Ode to an Orange A-Hole
03:04
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Ode to the Orange Asshole
You embody:
Stone Age Behaviors
Nostalgia for a time
And place that wasn't good for all
Make America Great again for whom?
You are:
Dangerous
Horrible
Piss face child
Infantile
Stunted
Petulant
Do you know story of our land?
The cause of European conquest
and its attenuated effects on the natives
The blacks, workers, women,
perceived enemies of the state
the oppressed and dispossessed
That constitute the sum
Of the history of our land
Because of this you are:
Fragile
Egotistic
Narcissist
Facile
Fraudulent
Racist
Misoginist
What will happen when he grabs your daughter or wife by the pussy America?
When he makes a deal to sell out your jobs America?
When he bankrupts your economy?
Starts a war because some piss ant country says shit on twitter?
What happens when he fires you?
The majority is wrong
You have burned the bridges
that were leading us to a progressive place
A post-racial time and space
You have embraced an
Angry
Jeering
Racist
Leering
Bully
Sexist
Small Handed
Abuser
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Let's Have a War
02:54
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Let's Have a War
There's so many of 'em
There's so many of 'em
There's so many
There's so many of 'em
There's so many of 'em
There's so many [x2]
Let's have a war
So alt right nazi’s can go and die!
Let's have a war!
We need our space!
Let's have a war!
Clean out this place!
It already started in the city!
Red States will be just as easy!
There's so many of 'em
There's so many of 'em
There's so many
There's so many of 'em
There's so many of 'em
There's so many [x2]
Let's have a war!
Destroy up the Dow Jones!
Let's have a war!
It can start in Tacoma!
Let's have a war!
Blame it on Brietbart!
Let's have a war!
It already started in the city!
Red States will be just as easy!
There's so many of 'em
There's so many of 'em
There's so many
There's so many of 'em
There's so many of 'em
There's so many (2x)
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Uncivil Society
02:10
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Uncivil Society
What is Society?
It is made from
you and me
I am not fit for Society
We are not informed citizenry
Can we make good choices?
Do we care enough to care?
Can't we all sit at the table
When there is enough to share?
I am not fit for Society
We are not informed citizenry
Can we make them accountable?
To the truths we hold true
Or are we just going to beat our chest
And fling our poo?
I am not fit for Society
We are not informed citizenry
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The Fraud of Liberty (redux)
We are a frightened child monster
Whose runaway growth
Has never been matched by moral
or cultural maturity
Naively cocksure Americans are
In their belief that they can whip
Any enemy whatsoever
Never ending patriotism
Non flinching
Loudmouthed
Vehement
Preachy
Mercenary
The Ugly American
Claims that our liberty is built
on a foundation of freedom for all
is seen and consistently exposed as a fraud
Our nation grew rich on
Chattel slavery
stealing natives land
Exploiting all newcomers
Reselling the land
Starting wars
And selling both sided the ordinance
Why?
Because we dress the business of power
in the garb of piety
Our moral rhetoric
Our false diplomacy
Cloaks an enlightened self interest
This is the fraud of liberty
Lyrics by Knut Hamsun (c. 1896)
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500 Years
03:03
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500 Years
For those who have been discovered
In the last 500 years
Results in devastation
Oppression through a combination
Of disease
Warfare
Land theft
Discrimination
Broken treaties
Removing children
Introducing poisons
Implementing beliefs
Force feeding education
This is assimilation
Cultural genocide
A method and process
That proceeds like clockwork
Moving through time and space
We have read the playbook
Go right - Hut hut hike
Bacteria
Bullets
Beads
Bureaucracy
Books
Booze
Bible
Don't take the blanket - it will make you sick
Stand up and fight - even with a stick
Reject their ways - you cannot buy and sell the earth
Plug your ears - when they talk about faith
Close the book - because Knowledge is not neutral
Break the pen - because their word is as strong as paper it is written on
Government does not make peace
Education is training for your future slavery
The drugs destroying your community have been supplied
You don't need parents in your life
Everything you perceive as truth is a lie
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Eliminating the Empire
03:29
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Eliminating the Empire
What is an empire without conquest?
What is conquest without war
What is war without torture
What is torture without suffering
What is suffering without war?
A world without empires
It's like an army without soldiers
Or a government without lies
Yet there is a tendency to think
that what we see in the present
will continue in perpetuity
We forget how often
how many times
we have been astonished
by the sudden crumbling
And collapse of institutions
Change manifests
through action
That alters how we think
When we realize our power
that we can erupt and rebel
Rising up against tyrannies
And cause quick collapse
of systems of power
that once seemed invincible
Remember and celebrate
the times and places
where so many people have
Behaved magnificently
Inspired us to act
The future is an infinite succession of presents
That means the time is now
Time to live as we think
human beings should live
With freedom, dignity and justice
To live in defiance
Of the worst of everything
That surrounds us
Is a marvelous victory
Hope is the catalyst for change
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