Legitimate Political Discourse...

 

Source: The Tucson Sentinel, article and artwork by Clay Jones

© February 7, 2022, the Griot Poet

 

January 6, 2021,

According to the FNC:

Fascist National Committee,

Because republicanism has ceased to exist,

Violence,

Is “legitimate political discourse”

 

That means, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols killing,

163 citizens; many children,

Detonating an IED,

At the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma, City

In 1996,

Engaged in “legitimate political discourse,”

 

Hundreds have been prosecuted,

Since January 6, 2021,

For crimes beyond the First Amendment,

They admitted: “they came for the president that summoned them,”

Conjuring spells in 140 characters, or less,

“It will be wild!”

The truest thing he ever said.

“Defund the police,”

Never spread feces at the Capitol,

There were outside radicals framing BLM,

That did most of the damage,

Yet, no windows were broken,

At the Million Man March,

No Capitol Police died from it,

 

Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger,

Have been censured,

By the Fascist National Committee,

Masquerading as their former party,

For following their oaths of office,

 

To “protect and defend The Constitution,

“Against all enemies,

“Foreign, AND domestic,”

Like the January 6, 2021 insurrectionists,

 

Without accountability,

There is no peace or justice,

The “rule of law” becomes a suggestion,

A sick, cosmic joke,

Or a farce,

 

“Cut their heads off!”

Ryan Nichols said,

Marching to the Capitol,

Spewing epithets,

He was not Antifa,

(Which means “anti-fascist”)

His lack of Melanin didn’t ally him,

With Black Lives Matter protestors,

Neither Antifa nor BLM,

Ryan Nichols s a fascist:

 

Noun: a political ideology and mass movement that dominated many parts of central, southern, and eastern Europe between 1919 and 1945 and that also had adherents in western Europe, the United States, South Africa, Japan, Latin America, and the Middle East. Europe’s first fascist leader, Benito Mussolini, took the name of his party from the Latin word fasces, which referred to a bundle of elm or birch rods (usually containing an ax) used as a symbol of penal authority in ancient Rome. Although fascist parties and movements differed significantly from one another, they had many characteristics in common: extreme militaristic nationalism, contempt for electoral democracy and political and cultural liberalism, a belief in the natural social hierarchy and the rule of elites, and the desire to create a Volksgemeinschaft (German: “people’s community”), in which individual interests would be subordinated to the good of the nation. Merriam-Webster

 

Without accountability,

Violence becomes “legitimate political discourse,”

Not of a political party, but

Of a Congress of Sociopaths,

 

The “party of Lincoln,”

Started March 20, 1854,

In Ripon, Wisconsin,

Former members of the Whig Party,

Opposed the expansion of slavery,

Into the western territories,

 

Republicans won 11 of 16 states in the 1856 election,

1857, the nine-member Supreme Court rendered the “Dred Scott Decision,”

Two Republican members dissented,

The Republicans were the progressives then!

The script has flipped since then.

With presidential candidate John C. Fremont,

The southern, democratic-led states,

Promised to secede,

If Republicans won the 1860 election,

 

Six weeks after Lincoln did,

South Carolina was the first state to secede,

All the insurrection states wrote the reason in their documents: slavery.

“States rights” pertained to the right to own humans in perpetuity,

By the way:

What in “states rights” to defy the government makes this country “United?”

 

Illegitimate political parties,

Intrinsically know that their views are unpopular,

Illegitimate political parties,

Eventually, dismiss any semblance of a platform,

Or guiding principles to let an electorate know what they are against,

Or, for,

 

“If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.”

 

A quote from Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower,

 

Such a party might ram through the nominations

To the nation’s highest court,

Of Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett,

Their judicial judgment reduced to a partisan “finger in the wind,”

Knowing the base’s public opinions like a divining weather vane,

Despite Gorsuch joking about being a member of the young fascists in college,

4,500+ credible tips on the character of Kavanaugh,

And the lack of experience by “Aunt Lydia” Barrett,

Or, the ramrodding of lifetime appointments,

The National Bar Association ranked as unqualified,

Glossed over by Moscow Mitch,

A fascist party might ignore good advice and logic,

 

“If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.”

 

Such a party might suppress the votes of marginalized citizens,

Such a party might write laws to make voting difficult,

Such a party might know it no longer can convince a plurality of the electorate to vote for it,

Such a party might want to ban books on actual history,

Such a party might get behind a failed real estate magnate, and make him a graven image of a Golden Calf, literally,

Such a party might want to jettison said failure but fear their radical, armed constituents,

Such a party might not care about the appearance of hypocrisy or unfairness,

Such a party, which we call fascist, might think violence is “legitimate political discourse."