It is a sad, sad story for the successes of the past do not fare to serve us in the present the logic of the bully is a nationalist sigh of relief and the arc of our world is divided by invisible lines that cross borders but across which only poverty ****, recorded and scored, shall pass when the successful liar is preferred to the lonely sage are we not prepared to accept that which we serve are we not prepared to eat from the plate we have earned to sup on anarchistic attitudes, imbibe narcoleptic morality then purge our selective brutality on the servers for we have earned this, that which fell into our laps a modern life made tolerable by the indictments of demagogues for freedom’s a blight in the nightmares of demagogues shopkeepers made frightful by the incitement of demagogues we don’t need rights when we’ve the rightness of demagogues we know they are liars, but are they successful liars? we know they start fires so they can be better seen presiding over the funereal pyre of our former freedom some bishop of hate and self-interest raised up by our fear to a pulpit of nations drawn low by wage slavery to a podium impatient for their arrogant knavery to a rostrum of hatred unsated by gross economic products to a minbar frustrated by allegations and false prophets It is a sad, sad story for our past failures, our careless disregard will not serve us in the present the logic of the bully is the demagogues rise to belief we are weakest only when we are weak and no backs will lift this burden but our own A sad story indeed
Listening to speeches by 'Nye' Bevan on the NHS from the 1950s (UK) and his phrasing and passion led to reflection on modern political figures