where are the times
when people could rely
more or less
on what their leaders
whom they had elected
spoke and did?
when there was yet no need
to fact-check every other sentence
of presidential self-appraisals
or denigrating tweets about opponents?
after three years of suffering
through all shenanigans of the most blatant kind
it seems that rudeness, ignorance, and lies
have quietly become accepted as new normal
we've learned that people we elected
to fight for our cause
can say one thing
and then the opposite
throw in a lie or two
and nobody complains
or votes them out of their coveted offices
in fact
thanks to the wonderful examples of our leaders
we now have learned to distrust everybody
even ourselves
eight billion plus of unreliables
Feb 6, 2020
Feb 6, 2020 at 5:25 AM UTC
where are the times
when people could rely
more or less
on what their leaders
whom they had elected
spoke and did?
when there was yet no need
to fact-check every other sentence
of presidential self-appraisals
or denigrating tweets about opponents?
after three years of suffering
through all shenanigans of the most blatant kind
it seems that rudeness, ignorance, and lies
have quietly become accepted as new normal
we've learned that people we elected
to fight for our cause
can say one thing
and then the opposite
throw in a lie or two
and nobody complains
or votes them out of their coveted offices
in fact
thanks to the wonderful examples of our leaders
we now have learned to distrust everybody
even ourselves
eight billion plus of unreliables
