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Do You Feel Safe Yet?

Janet Kuypers
6/25/25

I like the idea of being a megalomaniac, resembling a god.
It is required, in this ‘I’ society.                (source unknown)

When we look up to the stars, and we reach out and pray *
and no one ever answers, after “adulting,” we’ve left our

baby blankets & stuffed animals & childhood fantasies
& can’t rely on mommy & slash or daddy, we then think,

‘Wait a minute... our government is supposed to help us.’
I mean, we voted for these people to do the heavy lifting

so that we can go about our daily lives & not think of the
struggles of others. ...This must be what we pay taxes for.

And we look up to the tee vee screens, or the tablets, or
our smartphones (with screens now as flat as our brains)

and we hear from the party we’ve always voted for, so we
can only hear everything we think we need to hear. Talking

heads — not pundits but politicians, carefully orchestrate
every word, repeat their sound bites 3 times to morph their

statements into inferred “facts”, & keep their talking points
simple to dumb it down to the lowest common denominator,

so everyone can be a part of the group, a part of something
bigger than themselves.        (Isn’t that what religion’s for?)

But every time we vote someone in, be damned the side,
it’s amazing how the other side can be so let down. Their

own side should be let down too, when the ones voted in
do precisely the opposite of what you voted them in for.

“I’ll save money for the middle class.” Then prices go
up, up, up.
“I’ll get us out of wars and keep us safe.”

Then you see the bombers flying in formation to attack
another unknown enemy.
            Do you feel safe yet?

Because the thing is, this is what happens when these
megalomaniacs come to power. It’s in the script —

have you not read your history books? This is what
they do. Because as long as they don’t get rid of that

pesky term limit stuff for leaders, and as long as they
don’t squash other branches of the U.S. government,

then it doesn’t matter if you think that this all shatters**.
Because... It’s just politics. And nothing lasts forever**.

 

* Slow Emotion Replay, The The
** It Doesn’t Matter, Depeche Mode






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