Power poetry from D. Wallace Peach
Rail against despair
When deceit inters the truth
When corruption shrieks
And Narcissus chokes the void
With yowls from a vacant heart
For Colleen’s #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge. We had to use synonyms for empty (vacant) and space (void).
Sorry about the politics. I couldn’t help it with those prompts.
In light of Robert Mueller’s indictment of 12 Russian Nationals, a re-blog from October, 2016
Wikileaks BOMBSHELL Reveals Hillary Clinton is Satanic!
The work of destroying the first woman nominee for President requires an assault on reality. So, the party of patriotism and personal accountability is in the odd place of colluding with and using the strategies of a Russian President who is no friend to the United States.
From the Brookings Institute:
There is significant evidence that individuals acting at the direction of or on the behalf of Russia—the degree of coordination is unclear—are attempting to use organizational doxing to influence the United States presidential election. As Harvard law professor Jack Goldsmith noted, this raises a number of scary questions regarding preserving the integrity of U.S. election results. It is not entirely clear what is motivating the DNC document dumps or the apparent targeting of Hillary Clinton; some speculate the aim is to benefit Donald Trump, though a plausible goal might simply be to insert…
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In 1995 GOPAC was a right wing group chaired by Newt Gingrich.
Gingrich produced a handout called Language: A Key Mechanism
of Control.
It was a list of 113 words for use in attacks on progressive ideas
and democrats.
“Words and phrases are powerful,” wrote Gingrich.
“…memorize as many as possible and remember that like any tool, these words will not help if they are not used.”
“Apply these (words) to the opponent, their record, proposals, and their party.”
The words on his list were: “traitors, betray, sick, pathetic, lie, liberal, radical, hypocrisy, corruption, permissive attitude, greed, self-serving, ideological, anti-flag, anti-family, anti-child, anti-jobs, unionized bureaucracy, impose, and coercion.”
Republicans branded Democrats as, “sick, pathetic, incompetent, liberal traitors whose self-serving permissive attitudes promote a unionized bureaucracy and an anti-flag, anti-family, anti-child, anti-job ideology.”
Plus:
• abuse of power
• anti- (issue): flag, family, child, jobs
• betray
• bizarre
• bosses
• bureaucracy
• cheat
• coercion
• “compassion” is not enough
• collapse(ing)
• consequences
• corrupt
• corruption
• criminal rights
• crisis
• cynicism
• decay
• deeper
• destroy
• destructive
• devour
• disgrace
• endanger
• excuses
• failure (fail)
• greed
• hypocrisy
• ideological
• impose
• incompetent
• insecure
• insensitive • intolerant
• liberal
• lie
• limit(s)
• machine
• mandate(s)
• obsolete
• pathetic
• patronage
• permissive attitude
• pessimistic
• punish (poor …)
• radical
• red tape
• self-serving
• selfish
• sensationalists
• shallow
• shame
• sick
• spend(ing)
• stagnation
• status quo
• steal
• taxes
• they/them
• threaten
• traitors
• unionized
• urgent (cy)
• waste
• welfare
To be clear, Newt Gingrich and the Republican Party did not offer 113 new policies the GOP might write to win an honest political debate.
The GOP chose to poison our politics by smearing Democrats and suppressing the vote.
Today the GOP violates Democratic norms.
Today the GOP writes cruel legislation in secret, and spreads Russian style propaganda in political ads.
Today, Newt Gingrich is a propagandist for Vladimir Putin.
In American Democracy the people are the government.
As citizens we pay taxes into a common fund which we use to promote the
public good.
The public good is public education, housing, healthcare, and nutrition for
our children.
We provide access to these essentials because a person without class
mobility is not truly free.
These are my daily affirmations, repeat after me:
Smear campaigns are not public policy
Words have meaning.
I will not be conned.
(c) Rob Goldstein 2015-2017
Quote from John Adams found on Twitter
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.
Art by Rob Goldstein 