Donald v Bernie
By Phillip Baram 1/20/2020
1. I think come November 2020
it’s going to be
a shouting match
no, a bloody duel
between Trump and Sanders
The Donald versus uncle Bernie
Queens versus Brooklyn
show-off goy versus big-mouth jew
big alpha male capitalist
versus little rumpled socialist
real estate mogul versus
preachy commie symp
make America great again
versus turn it upside down
keep it white and Christian
versus make it brown and diverse
land of founding fathers, flags, tradition
versus land of millennials, internet, selfies
pledge of allegiance
versus taking a knee
America began bright
and white in 1776
versus no, it began dark
and black in 1619
Martin Luther King Jr. old icon
versus new icons
Malcolm X and Farrakhan
old white men going to daily work
versus gays and feminists
going to a demo for impeachment,
abortion or (the latest fad) a
transgender library reading for kids.
2. Great ally of Israel
versus sniping critic of Israel
Gentile, and true friend of Jews
versus Jew, and false friend of Jews
reincarnation of King Cyrus of old
versus reincarnation of Leon Trotsky
little government Republicans
versus big government Democrats
oil and coal versus wind and sunclimate change’s exaggerated
versus no, it’s here and now!
freedom to rise to the top
versus let’s bring the super-rich down!
the push for Liberty
versus the push for Equality
(as for Fraternity, fahgettaboutit)
white lives, indeed all lives, matter
versus no, only black lives matter,
and so on and so forth…
There’s no overlap
the gap in values is growing
yes, Virginia, there IS
a Civil War in the USA today
here are more contrasts:
flyover Middle America
versus the East and West Coast
FoxNews versus CNN
enough of p.c. woke thinking
versus no, we need more!
secure the borders!
versus no, open them up!
be careful about Moslem immigrants!
versus no that’s islamophobic!
Trump’s right, stop crazy Iran now!
versus Obama was right,
appease innocent Iran now!
and so on and so forth…
3. Two questions: tomorrow
or next week or month or year
will the ever boiling far left
try to assassinate Trump
will the ever ice cold far right
try to assassinate Sanders
and I don’t mean verbally
I mean physically
like shooting or stabbing to death?
God forbid, God forbid
but my answer –as of this moment
writing in a trance-like psychic state
at 2 a.m., January 20, 2020–
is probably yes
to both questions
and at that pointat that deadly bloody point
again yes,
there’ll be no more constraints
“the Center will not hold”
the dam
will break
all hell
will break
loose in the US of A.
for how long, who knows
but it’s not going to be pretty.
4. But let’s pause right here–
isn’t all this just a bad dream?
aren’t I too much the
fatalistic Cassandra?
what happened to my
think-positive nature
my American optimism?
why do I only see
This side versus That side
the Gap widening?
well, that’s what I see
and not only the gap but
the Abyss below the gap–
bloody death, major riots
the hole in the sugary donut
of American culture today
the big black hole
in American politics today
sucking everything
into its maw, its vortex
no, it’s not a dream
or even a nightmare
it really feels more
like Biblical prophecy.
Like it or not–
here comes
Disaster!
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@ pjbar:
As conservatives have pointed out, slavery didn’t begin in 1619: It has been with us since the dawn of history. What was new was the idea of emancipation and the concept that “all men are created equal”, written into the Declaration of Independence (by white people).
I don’t expect the gap to narrow, any time soon.
@ tree:
you obviously are not familiar with the NYTimes project, which is to revise history so that Americans should now know that 1619, the year black slavery was supposedly begun in the colony of Virginia, was the bad beginning of the US– not good old 1776.
Is the year ‘1619’ a spelling error? From Wikipedia: “The arrival of Christopher Columbus in the year 1492 started the European colonization of the Americas. Most colonies were formed after 1600” – but those were not “black”!
Actually the US did not existed in 1619, the European colonized parts were a colony of England.