To Have Their Cake and Eat It, Too

It seems as though our friends on the Right

Are still eager to pursue

Policies that show that they want

To have their cake and eat it, too.

 

Take taxes, for example.

They want voters to buy their pitch

On how they're lowering taxes, but

The biggest tax breaks go to the rich.

 

Fighting vaccine and mask mandates,

They chatter on and will not drop it.

They want to get past COVID; however,

They aren't really trying to stop it.

 

They are seeing the damaging

Effects of extreme weather conditions,

But when we talk clean energy,

They don't budge from their positions.

 

Ironically, voter integrity

Is an idea that they promote,

And yet all across the country

They're working hard to suppress the vote.

 

They praise America's history

Of freedom and democracy,

And yet they kiss the ring of man

Who leans toward autocracy.

 

They cannot have it both ways.

Democratic values matter.

Between thuggish power and freedom,

Americans should choose the latter.

 

-by Bob B (10-19-21)