© September 21, 2021, the Griot Poet
I don’t take credit for the title,
Brian Williams coined “situational nihilism,”
On his aptly named show, “The 11th Hour,”
An apropos metaphor,
Democracy can’t exist,
In the presence of dark money super PACS,
Since 2013’s “Shelby vs. Holder,”
It’s been hanging by a thread ever since,
By the way:
Eliminate the filibuster.
Moscow Mitch in 2019,
Said, there’s no way they wouldn’t raise the debt ceiling,
Two years later, in 2021,
He’s ready to hold a gun to our collective heads,
For trillions of dollars in tax cuts for the rich,
This debt ceiling is his and his party’s debt,
Because he hasn’t paid a political price yet,
He stole a Supreme Court seat from President Obama, and
Merrick Garland,
Saying, “it was too soon before an election,”
That didn’t stop him from ramming through,
Inside joke “Fascism Forever Club” Neil Gorsuch,
“I like beer” pervert Brett Kavanaugh,
The Handmaid’s Tale’s hypocritical Aunt Lydia: Amy Comey
Barrett,
They were willing to hold a Supreme Court seat open
For the death of Antonin Scalia,
Indefinitely, or until
The next Republican president,
John Meachum points out,
The caveat of democracy,
Is the willingness of election losers
To accept their loss,
Understand it,
Jettison what didn’t work,
Improve their arguments,
Give a reason citizens should vote for them,
Expand their margins in the midterms,
Answer W-I-I-T-F-M: “what’s in it for me?” to their constituents,
Every sports team is now more democratic than half of
Congress,
Each player accepts the possibility,
As hard as they compete, they might fall flat,
There are some hard feelings, few brawls,
And, not one insurrection on the fifty-yard line or half-court!
Nihilism, from Merriam-Webster:
a viewpoint that traditional values and beliefs
are unfounded and that existence is senseless and useless
Nihilism is a condition in which all ultimate
values lose their value.
— Ronald H. Nash
a doctrine that denies any objective ground of
truth and especially of moral truths
a doctrine or belief that conditions in the social
organization are so bad as to make destruction desirable for its own sake
independent of any constructive program or possibility
capitalized: the program of a 19th-century Russian
party advocating revolutionary reform and using terrorism and assassination
Situational nihilism is the gateway drug to fascism,
Moscow Mitch won’t vote for raising the debt limit,
He did three times during Orange Satan’s administration for an
eight TRILLION dollar deficit!
We now have a two-party system where one believes in
democracy, and the other doesn’t,
They’ve been shrinking since W ran in the year 2000,
Halcyon days in retrospect comparison,
The electorate rolling their eyes on “traditional marriage”
and “family values,”
When your party is shrinking, block those “others” from
voting,
The road to January 6, 2021, began
With the Brown vs. Board of Education 9 to 0 decision,
The last time the Supreme Court had any relevance,
The right was upset because nine judges in 1954 followed The
Constitution,
The right wanted to vote on separate but equal education,
The right wanted to vote on segregation,
The right wanted to vote on Civil Rights legislation,
The right wanted to vote on Voting Rights,
The right wanted to vote on Fair Housing Rights,
The right wanted to vote on a woman’s bodily autonomy,
To deny ALL of it!
Because “democracy” is only okay for certain people,
And they had the numbers to reinforce their racist, sexist,
and xenophobic will,
George Orwell’s lines spoke prophecy:
“War is peace,
“Freedom is slavery,
“Ignorance is strength.”
“Lovecraft Country” got it right:
White supremacy is a form of witchcraft,
Their tendency towards violence the monsters of our
nightmares,
Bending times, laws, and gravity to its collective will,
Sponsoring foreign wars,
Willfully ignoring poverty and inequality,
Marvin Gaye said, “It Makes Me Wanna Holler,”
Gil Scot-Heron said, “Whitey’s on the Moon,”
What do Joe Manchin and Kristen Sinima plan to do,
If the Democrats lose the House and Senate in 2022?
Nazis have no use for treasonous collaborators,
You bought places in the back of the line at Auschwitz,
Where the ovens will be their hottest after I go in,
Situational nihilism will demand that Moscow Mitch
After he gets another fascist, he can work with,
Expand the court to a 9 to 3 supermajority,
Kevin Q-Carthy will expend all resources,
For Benghazi 2.0,
To impeach Joe Biden and Kamala Harris,
A guaranteed conviction if Moscow is triumphant,
They are men and women of sin; sons and daughters of
lawlessness,
Any Bibles they possess has thick layers of dust on them,
Any pocket Constitutions they possess never get past the
Second Amendment,
Vigilantes seeking bounties outside of Texas’s borders,
You don’t quite know that in dysfunctional dystopias,
The sun rises and sets as it usually does,
As seas slowly rise, superstorms become commonplace,
Redwood forests become dried kindling,
Elysium is the next logical stage of this psychopathy,
What’s left hanging heavy in the air is voter apathy,
Births fall as indebted young can’t afford to raise families,
We careen from one climate change disaster to the next
pandemic,
Alabama projects a future where the dead outnumber the living,
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