VERSION FRANCOPHONE OTHER
POEMS
SUMMARY OF LEARNERS INTRO & VOCAB
A conservative might be “great”:
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But most are just bullies |
Just plain mean |
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Penny wise for others |
Bullion snatchers |
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Psychopaths |
Or sociopaths |
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Malignant narcissists Roman “Optimales” |
Allergic to empathy Obviously “the Best” |
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Self-entitled Self-pitying |
Self-important Full of self |
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More or less closeted Racist, sexist, ageist, homophobe |
Libertarians for themselves, Totalitarians for others. |
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Small-town, small-minded |
Provincial chauvinists |
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Zero-sum dead-enders |
Starvers of other people’s children |
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Bible-thumping (Christians) Torah-thumping (Jews) Qran-thumping (Muslims) Gita-thumping (Hindus) Ego-thumping (Atheists) |
With the brain of a reptile, not a
mammal; All limbic system, no frontal lobe; All threat, no ethics; All hat and no cattle; All take and no give back. |
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Saber-rattling draft-deferred chicken-hawks |
Recruiting others to: Invade first, occupy always and reflect
never. |
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Hand on heart oath violators |
Two-faced hypocrites. |
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Admire Hitler, Mussolini, Franco |
Promote Putin, Assad, Trump |
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National-Capitalists, National-Communists, National-Socialists National-Fundamentalists Sum total, National-Corporatists |
Wreck democracy, The Constitution and Human rights |
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Deaf to popular will |
Deadly scared of it |
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Long live greed! |
Fuck human rights except for their own |
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Delinquent judges |
Organized-crime legislators |
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Pro-gun under all circumstances Surrounded by bodyguards |
Who forbid guns in their own conventions They like to gun down babies by accident |
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Embezzlers posing as free speech advocates |
On the take to the highest bidder |
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Dunces Or criminals |
Who echo the errors of history, And repeat them improved |
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Daring where angels fear to tread |
Scared of what infants would smile
at. |
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Family-values sex offenders |
Orphan/widow makers |
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Counter-factual |
Counter-rational |
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Anti-science |
Dead-earnest fantasists |
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Millenarian fruitcakes |
End-of-time planet wreckers |
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Anti-nature |
Anti-nurture |
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Never wrong, typical sociopaths |
Eager to blame others |
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A crook who plays President A senile actor who plays President A village idiot who plays President Trump |
Plays that role twice Plays his role twice Plays it twice Halftime impeached or double war-timed? |
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Assholes elect them over and over and seek new ones even worse. |
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Against our government of any size For their colossal government |
Unwilling to learn, Unwilling to do better |
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Office seekers Incompetent at governance |
Very willing to do it wrong, Careful crafters of bad government. |
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The foremost beneficiaries of government Who despise it for all to see |
“Good governance is the Democratic
Republic of the Congo―no taxes, no roads, no rule of law except at
gunpoint and for a price.” |
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Who couldn’t find the DRC on a labeled map |
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Third world Banana Republicans |
Their children, conscientious and
clear-sighted, Flee from home to less infernal places |
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War-loving and grudging of peace |
Traitorous “patriots.” |
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Elitists of no personal merit |
Self-promoted beyond their
competence. |
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Certified mediocrities Their tyranny statistically mediocre |
Who crow their own “exceptionalism” As well as that of the country they’ve
crippled |
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Anesthetized against lethal menaces (Climate change) |
Hypervigilant of nonexistent ones (Humanism) |
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Culture and science illiterates |
Raising stupid ignorance to the level
of genius. |
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Philosophical black holes Lying lie profiteers |
Skeptical of the truth, breeding lies Truth and reason are poison |
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Like bad boys stupid women fall in love with |
Leaving their voters ruined and jobless |
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Reject the good, spread harm, |
Embrace evils useful or otherwise. |
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Pro-death sentence, pro-life sentence: |
Mass-produce poor victims for
sacrifice |
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Promote waste & fraud |
Entitled to profit from mass misery |
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Corporate militarists now |
Nazis if it’s more convenient |
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etc. |
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But "great" ones are rare |
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Perhaps one or two among countless conservatives |
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Never in majority and never in control. |
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Learner, begin