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Saturday, March 10, 2018

WHERE ARE YOU NOW, ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, THAT YOUR PARTY NEEDS YOU?

by George Salamon


#BankLobbyistAct

“And Eleanor always took a stand
For the hungry and the homeless all across the land.”


The new liberal elite,
Ungenerous of heart,
Narrow of mind,
Intolerant of the other,
In denial of complexity,
Souls as dead as those
You pretend to hate
But see fit to serve.
Technocrats of delusion,
Your masters orchestrate
Your intrusion into
Their empire of cronyism and collusion.
Amused by your shouts of resistance,
As their paychecks assure your compliance.


George Salamon agrees with the Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt (1818 to 1897) who wrote: "The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity."