What's Happening? Part 2

 

Every time I tell myself that things could not get worse

Donald Trump insists on demonstrating the reverse;

Drawing an equivalence between "alt-left" and right

Despite white supremacists' intentions to incite.

One does not wear body armor, helmets, jack-boots, guns,

Carry flaming torches, chanting slogans - Nazi ones' - 

Unless one is looking for a fight, it seems to me...

Yet, again, the President and I do not agree.

Trump believes the "alt-left" charged and then the two sides fought.

Neo-Nazis had the permits, those opposed did not.

"Thank you for your courage," tweets Grand Wizard David Duke.

Ku Klux Klan is happy? Great. I think I'm gonna puke.

Our Basket Overfloweth

 

Seems the "basket of deplorables" has overflowed.

Now they're marching through the streets...  They hit the mother-load

When an "alt-right" thug like Bannon found a President

Who'd already demonstrated his own racist bent.

'cause, one thing these "free speech" advocates all have to say

(They'll be here in Boston for a rally Saturday

With their flaming tiki torches waving in the sky,

Wearing Nazi symbols)  Donald Trump's their kinda guy.

I'm a fan of Chomsky's just as much as anyone;

Free speech is imperative...  Yet, when all's said and done,

This could be like screaming "Fire!" in a movie house,

Fanning flames of hatred that are difficult to douse. 

Russian FOX News

In a propaganda war it's hard to know what's true.

Both sides may be lying...  We know Putin's told a few.

Russian news claims Nazi sympathizers rule Ukraine,

Backed by U.S. Special Forces.  Clearly, that's insane.

Russians must believe it though 'cause many of them call

For new annexations in Ukraine...  Don't want it all.

Just the eastern bits (the part with mines and rich farmland)

And, if we don't like it, we are welcome to pound sand.

Russians seem to think their country's only lending aid,

Unaware that protestors on city streets got paid.

It's as if they're trying to form rational world views

When their only source of information's like FOX News.