This Dragon...

 

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© October 22, 2021, the Griot Poet

 

Steve Scalise once described himself as “David Duke without the baggage.”

David Duke was a grand dragon and avowed white supremacist.

Fooled by Ron Stallworth in the book and movie “Black Klansman.”

Any supremacy is anathema to democracy.

 

It is interesting that Steve Scalise, the minority whip counter on the Republican side of the House, is urging his colleagues to vote NO on holding his br’er fascist, Steve Bannon, in criminal contempt of Congress,

In allegiance to a demagogue that lost the 2020 election, the Senate, and the House,

 

If the rule of law is subject to “situational nihilism.”

(Brian Williams, The 11th Hour, MSNBC),

Then the law as we thought we knew it is essentially moot.

Only nine Republicans in the House followed The Constitution to hold Bannon in contempt of Congress with all of the Democrats,

Meaning all the Republicans who voted against it are in contempt of their [own] office,

 

Now, “Robert Lewis, Rufus, and Frog” along with “Billy Bob, Cooter, and Skeeter” will all declare themselves Republicans and ignore any subpoenas sent to them,

Reduced to a notion by the man whose publicly stated aim was to “deconstruct the administrative state.”

Good luck running courts large and small across the nation.

Or, for that matter: the United States.

 

‘Murica is open to conspiracy theories,

Because its citizens have been lied to:

 

The overthrow of Mohammad Mossadegh and the installation of the Shah by the CIA and MI6 in 1953,

Nationalizing oil reserves gained the ire of the intelligence services and British Petroleum,

 

The sixties was an assassination decade,

President Kennedy,

Then, Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby,

Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, Dr. Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy by Sirhan, Sirhan,

 

There’s still a group that doesn’t believe we went to the moon,

Yet aliens are somehow interested in “little-old-us”;

Bigfoot and Nessie are natural creatures, and the world post-Apollo is either flat or donut-shaped (I’m not kidding).

 

Follow that with “I’m not a crook” Richard Nixon, “we’re not selling arms for hostages” Ronald Reagan, it’s no wonder trust in institutions other than the military is at an all-time low.

 

Roger Ailes and Rush Limbaugh appealed to fellow jowl-faced fascists that consider Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion an existential crisis,

 

As their impish clone, Tucker Carlson parrots “replacement theory,”

 

“Nature abhors a vacuum,” and provocateurs like Alex Jones are more than happy to fill the trust void.

 

Add to that the 30,000+ COVFEFE whoppers of the last Oval Office occupant and the death toll his lies bore.

At least Brazil is considering holding Jair Bolsonaro responsible for crimes against humanity for 100,000+ dead. Our body count is higher. “U-S-A!” “U-S-A!”

 

Senator Angus King has evolved on the filibuster. He’s willing to change the rules so voting rights can get passed.

However, the dragon reared its head to “conserve” the status quo of white supremacy, maintaining this Jim Crow relic.

Senator Tim Scott (“America is not racist”) needs a new mirror and an active human soul to inhabit his skin bag.

 

To quote a 2020 tweet from someone named Beau Willimon, succinctly comparing Capitalism, Socialism, Authoritarianism, and Democracy:

 

“Let’s get something straight:

“Capitalism & Socialism are economic systems,

“Authoritarianism & Democracy are political systems,

“Socialism is not inherently authoritarian,

“Capitalism is not inherently democratic,

“‘Authoritarian capitalism is what Republicans are aiming for,”

 

No one is a capitalist unless you own the means of production,

From janitor to Ph.D.,

If you labor in a profession,

You’re part of the proletariat!

 

The only thing that makes sense of their madness,

Is despite what they say they admire in The Constitution,

They want to reduce all of us,

To old world “lords and serfs,”

Paupers begging for alms,

Children laborers,

More like “The Hunger Games” than the Declaration of Independence!

 

Our democracy can no longer afford to ride this leviathan and continue to exist.

 

Knowing that their heads will blow up like teenage zits,

The last line is for religious hypocrites,

 

“And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great, fiery red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems on his heads.” Revelations 12:3