Avoid the Raging Storm

 

First, he sells conspiracies untrue

Blame them for what is ailing you

More loudly he entrains

Hate, mistrust all the same

We will be great again

It is us versus them

Fear and fervor, call them names

Create enemies, make false claims

Wave of discontent, a rise to power

All the others will be made to cower

Fight the truth with louder lies

Discredit the press and their allies

Take over courts, they must serve us

The nation, the people in him will trust

His will is the nation’s, and their ruin

Soon this ego, this bluster is all our undoing

And the war will end, millions and he too will die

And yet his hate lives on, and still his flag will fly

So, we let another, and another, and more will try

And they come to us with their own special lie

But the story is always audacious and the same

It’s untrue, but they give the enemy an ugly name

Our belief of innate superiority fans flames of the fire

The system failed us, and a faux hero is our heart’s desire

We must learn from history of fascism’s form

And avoid the next coming raging storm