in this country
there has always been

a force that does not
believe in democracy

like a virus
it is carried by people

from one generation
to the next

it lives
it hides itself
in many forms

but all it wants
is power

not freedom
it does not live

specifically on the
left or the right

but it can bury itself in either

it does not care about you

only one thing scares it
the human mind that questions it

that asks for definitions
that asks for facts

it cannot stand to be checked

if you let it define words
for you
it will control you

freedom is being
able to define for yourself