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A True Patriot?
To call the president a true
Patriot is a cause for concern.
Just to hear him called that ought
To make a person's stomach turn.
A patriot? Someone who sidles up
To murderous tyrants around the globe?
Whose policies sound as though
They're coming from a xenophobe?
A patriot? Someone who takes advice
From dictatorial leaders who
Suppress their people and stomp on their
Democratic points of view?
A patriot? Someone who simply ignores
Advice from honorable experts here
And lets only sycophants
And adulators have his ear?
A patriot? Someone who uses his office
For self-enrichment and personal gain,
And when the critics question him,
He responds with bitter disdain?
A patriot? Someone who thumbs his nose
At laws and with no circumspection
Asks for foreign involvement to help
Him win a presidential election?
A patriot? Someone who willfully
Obstructs justice and who defies
Subpoenas and asks his team to do
The same while they back up his lies?
A patriot? Someone who panders to
Religious groups to advocate
Laws that violate principles of
The separation of church and state?
A patriot? Someone who scorns our allies
And has a peculiar motivation
To placate adversaries and thus
Damage our nation's reputation?
A leader who stresses self before country
And rules a country with devious ways
Doesn't deserve to be called a patriot
And doesn't deserve the people's praise.
-by Bob B (10-18-19)
Patriot is a cause for concern.
Just to hear him called that ought
To make a person's stomach turn.
A patriot? Someone who sidles up
To murderous tyrants around the globe?
Whose policies sound as though
They're coming from a xenophobe?
A patriot? Someone who takes advice
From dictatorial leaders who
Suppress their people and stomp on their
Democratic points of view?
A patriot? Someone who simply ignores
Advice from honorable experts here
And lets only sycophants
And adulators have his ear?
A patriot? Someone who uses his office
For self-enrichment and personal gain,
And when the critics question him,
He responds with bitter disdain?
A patriot? Someone who thumbs his nose
At laws and with no circumspection
Asks for foreign involvement to help
Him win a presidential election?
A patriot? Someone who willfully
Obstructs justice and who defies
Subpoenas and asks his team to do
The same while they back up his lies?
A patriot? Someone who panders to
Religious groups to advocate
Laws that violate principles of
The separation of church and state?
A patriot? Someone who scorns our allies
And has a peculiar motivation
To placate adversaries and thus
Damage our nation's reputation?
A leader who stresses self before country
And rules a country with devious ways
Doesn't deserve to be called a patriot
And doesn't deserve the people's praise.
-by Bob B (10-18-19)
