Finally Lost My Wack Libtard Idealism

Lost sight of the person I once had wanted to become

Got comfortable with seeing bulldozers roaring everywhere I went

Got used to living in a greedy plastic land of marketing make believe

Gave up on those homemade, love-based, back-to-the-land, juvenile delusions

Forgot completely about swimming in clean water anymore in the summer

Grew able to ignore the polluted air since I was always behind dirty windows

Lost connection to the land but tuned into the stock markets

Came out of the forest and became a temporary stain on the pavement

Stopped looking for some small-footprint, self-sustaining lifestyle

Lost sight of the ideals that were instilled in me so long ago

Grew to find happiness in buying cheap new imports and saving nothing

Quit walking in the woods but made new trails with my noisy dirt bike

Learned to look for speculative potential behind all undeveloped land

Adopted a conservatism which promotes exploitation in all directions

Surrendered happily to every childish urge presented by the media

Succumbed to a fantasy lifestyle financed by expensive credit cards

Gradually lost empathy with the poor and totally forgot the underprivileged

No longer plant trees on Earth Day but I do know which SUV has more horsepower

Lost sight of happiness in the endless rush after pleasures I never remember

Look right on thru the endless suffering of my less successful brothers

Don’t worry about safe, homemade, organic food cause I eat out all the time

Forgot how to think critically and do not listen to that quiet voice inside me anymore, either

Don’t care that I lost track of the cycles of the moon and the seasons

Remain ignorant of science but freely quote from hundreds of Hollywood releases

Gave up on the redwoods and no longer fear for the baby seals

Let the rain forests go and what good, really, were those polar bears anyway?

Not going back to the land except on my powerful overpriced and financed OHV

No longer question the morality of war if our born-again leaders find it necessary

Quit worrying about a planet that I do not own and cannot control

learned to overlook my extra 25 pounds, double chin and metabolic syndrome

Found it so much easier swimming deep inside the school rather than against the tide

Gave my children everything in hopes they would always find me cool

Spend thousands on an illusion that I am not like those who came before me

Lost sight of the person that I had wanted to become when I finally grew up

Barely notice that I stay at work too long and commute way too far

Gave up any sense of responsibility for leaving behind a better world

Find it easy to sit semi-comatose flipping channels instead of reading books

Narrowed a broad curiosity into eToy price comparisons and stock watching

Haven’t taken up a new sport or picked up an old one since I don’t want to know when

No longer strive for a mystical connection to any land, weather or animals

Don’t really recognize the person in any of my old pictures

Sometimes try to consider what I might have thought of my new self, way back then

Caught up in watering, poisoning, fertilizing and mowing the stupid grass I so detested

Grew embarrassed of recycling when my Conservative betters deemed it a sign of weakness

Foolishly dress like a ‘Professional’ to keep a job I actually loathe very much

Don’t bother checking miles per gallon or tailpipe emissions but I know my 0 to 60 times

Quit worrying where the food comes from or where the garbage goes

Forgot about acid rain, global warming, overpopulation and toxic chemicals

Convinced now that greed is enshrined in our infallible constitution and the holy bible

Trying to make a difference no longer keeps me awake in the night

Long ago put down the musical instrument I once found so important

Wake up with thoughts of who I must backstab at work instead of who I should try to be

Quit living in the moment and simply work for short, mindless breaks

Never walk quietly and all alone in the moonlight anymore

Lost sight of all the reasons I once had to strive for a better world

Focused quite clearly on myself and what the kids want right now

Sometimes wonder who this person is that I married so long ago

Grown quite accustomed to the sight of miles of brand new and identical Burbs

Content with family adventure at some new and distant shopping mall

Anti-depressants and alcohol help to smooth out the bumps and the glitches

Feel cheated cause I didn’t spend hours at electronic games like my kids get to do

Accepted Jesus as my personal savior and abdicated all of my rational responsibility

No longer see well enough to scan those far off horizons for spiritual clues

Don’t bother to stop for the rainbows I only see now through my bug-splattered windshield

Look forward to salty snacks snatched from cellophane bags

Use my remaining thinking skills to analyze overblown corporate sporting events

Pretend to look rich to those just like me on vacations none of us can actually afford

Dress up like an outlaw on my financed Harley on weekends, insured by the AARP

Expect to maintain my accustomed lifestyle from the Social Security I so richly deserve

Paid off my credit cards again by cashing out more unearned home equity, then filed Chapter 7

Made big money cashing out my home & leaving the community my kids can’t afford to live in

Lost sight of the great wheel and was to quickly thrown off the corporate merry-go-round

Don’t feel like that aging person I don’t recognize in unexpected glances in mirrors

Am not a litterbug but don’t recycle since it doesn’t really matter

Love my second home but am mildly appalled by habitat destruction

Take fashion cues from my kids marketers, adding lame twists of my own

Quite often need a morning Ibuprofen just from sleeping wrong

Don’t walk the sidewalks anymore for fear of being seen as squishy

Financed a new and bigger house after the kids simply ruined the old one

Plumbers and electricians, roofers and carpenters make me uneasy

No longer unaware of a tee shirt in which the sweat has dried in its place

My search of the unknowable ended in small tithes and a blind trust in Jesus

Staunched my bleeding heart with a swab of Social Darwinism

Now we pull together with the tough love of compassionate conservatism

All the attractive women call me Sir and recommend what their fathers like for me

Spent the money my parents left me on a facelift and a new sports sedan

Found some drawings I once made but quickly regained my petty focus

Lost sight of stars that had guided me, but not just because of all the light pollution

No longer see important images in those great western skies

Now prefer the non-stop, empty din of the media to culturing peaceful silence within

Would not mind seeing all that empty wilderness if I did not have to walk to get there

Lay in bed trying to figure out how I can make all that money I need real quick

Learned that if I cannot really afford it, at least I can still put it on the credit card

Hurry Up And Damn MAGA

Hurry up and get the government out of the ‘business’ of habitat preservation

Make haste and put jesus front and center in all our courtrooms and legislatures

Let’s rapidly streamline these burdensome and costly mining and drilling regulations

Our opponents partisan stalling is at the root of our most serious problems

Quickly dump these time-consuming environmental impact statements

End the charade today and let’s get all the oil we can from anywhere we want

The people deserve to see our complete vision enacted in its entirety

Quash this talk of a right to privacy and get on with unaudited secret surveillance

Hurry up and gerrymander all the voting districts with unbeatable majorities

Abruptly end Title 9, handicapped access and all this BS affirmative action

These endless rancorous debates are paralyzing our government bodies

Quickly now, terminate all entitlement programs and end corporate taxes

This very afternoon let’s abolish these meddlesome Clean Water and Endangered Species Acts

Immediately allow all vehicles anytime and anywhere on all our public lands

We need to rid ourselves of this poisonous atmosphere of political acrimony

Cut to the chase and allow mineral extraction wherever, whenever and however

Spin off our under-utilized forests via open bidding to encourage unfettered development now

Hurry up and get prayer back into the classrooms right along with Intelligent Design

Too much energy is being wasted in polarized, non-productive arguments

Right now - Post a 30 day eviction notice on the door of that godless United Nations

Quit stalling and just pack the court full with those who share our enlightened views

Immediately ban all forms of artificial contraception and sex education to those under 25

We can eliminate many conflicts forever by finally making some decisions

Quickly institute mandatory prayer and bible study in all our public schools

Make a rapid purge of the liberals controlling our colleges and the media

Let us use sound bites and prayer to make the tough decisions we need never regret

Right now lift all emissions and mileage regulations from our new vehicles

Abruptly end government-funded public radio and television for good

Hurry up and abolish the minimum wage and ban all forms of unions

We must make our decisions and write them all down and get on with things

Make a quick and final exit from species preservation and re-introduction

Immediately empower confidential government policy-making boards led by industry executives

Simply quit subsidizing or even encouraging recycling and conservation completely

Marginalize these whining squishes now so we can make clearer plans for our future

End race-based quotas and assistance to the children of poverty after lunch

Abolish these stifling offshore drilling restrictions before leaving today

Use endless rapid repetition of slickly-packaged simple messages to establish guiding truths

Put all of the public-housing and property-stealing national monuments up for sale tomorrow

Quickly make it impossible to obtain information outside of official sources

Govern best by doing less, trusting in God, the marketplace and anonymous corporate donors

Immediately put a cap on punitive damages any way industry sees fit

Right away re-classify all politically sensitive documents as secret

Quickly eliminate the EPA, lay off its workers and cancel its mandates

Silence the foolish gun control whiners forever with court decisions and new legislation

Terminate these non-productive federally-funded climate studies immediately

Right away start teaching Traditional Family ValuesÔ and the Bible in our public schools

Let us do these things with candor and energy and record our results

Eliminate this misguided national endowment for the arts as fast as you can

Abolish quotas on technical visas and give bigger tax breaks for outsourcing jobs

Drop all these socialist controls and give the free market complete control of the healthcare industry

Hurry up and let consumers decide the fate of remaining old-growth forests

Quickly make it official practice to edit and censure federal research papers

Immediately further the spread of democracy at will via military force

This incessant quarrelling is tiring and stands in the way of our real progress

Replace all burdensome government oversight with non-binding self-regulation

Speedily stop the endless appeals on extraction and development projects

Starting now, give all aid only through the faith-based charities of our supporters

Enough of mere drips and drabs, riders and amendments – full speed ahead!

Quickly stop the debate and simply ban all abortions. Period.

Right away we need to give new owners full control over their leveraged wetland properties

Let such actions replace empty rhetoric and the results can be recorded for posterity

Provide permanent relief of excessive tax burdens on the wealthy right now

Make it official today that all poverty benefits simply trickle down from the rich

Let it all come to pass and let everyone be judged for their part

Offer black convicts slavery and prejudice reparations in the form of one-way tickets to Africa

Speedily make implanted smart card IDs mandatory for all migrant workers

Give us a chance to bring our democratic, faith-based vision to full fruition now

Rapidly free our corporations from uncompetitive pension and benefit burdens

Fast track an amendment for annual increases in military spending into our sacred constitution

We have a clear vision going forward, just let’s quickly remove the obstacles in our path

So We Chose To Be Like This?

So we save the jobs, cut the trees and extinguish the spotted owls

When the old growth is all cut and exported what jobs then remain

If we saved the trees and retrained a few lumberjacks right now

Maybe there would be some tourist jobs in the old growth along with the owls

So we spend a couple trillion to secure democracy and oil in the middle east

When the fields are tapped and sent to China what will Big Oil then provide us?

If we spent a quarter of that money to develop energy independence

Maybe we could abandon the Sheiks and Imams to the biting flies of their stinking desert

So we tithe without question a half a trillion every year to the god of war

Why then can’t we prevail against their homemade IEDs and crude truck bombs?

If we took three quarters of that budget for education, infrastructure, health and the old

Maybe we would actually be ready to meet any real challenger who might arise

So we go ahead and tap our arctic wilderness for a small petroleum reserve

When we consume all of what little there is today, it’s just gone forever

If we simply waited while technology got better at doing more with less

Possibly they could drill cleaner and safer sometime when we really need it

So we spend more every year on prisons for petty minority drug users and hookers

What value flows to society for the costs of their miserable upkeep

If we legalized and regulated, taxed and collected fees instead

we might even spend more on schools and put the pimps and pushers out of business

So we open up the forests to entrepreneurs and activities of any stripe

When it’s all built out, what then will we turn our holy bulldozer crusade against?

If we preserve what rightfully belongs to generations yet to come

Maybe they can tap potentials that we have never even dreamed of

So we conglomerate and merge and automate and globalize to the limit

When every worker toils for pennies, who then can afford the flood of goods?

If we lower the human population and use resources more efficiently

Maybe we won’t all have be reduced to a miserable common denominator

So we open a Wal*Mart close to everyone in this exceptionist land of ours

Local businesses are buried beneath their semis stuffed with imports

If we have to pay a little more than for their asian knockoffs and cheapened generics

Perhaps our towns will retain a bit of diversity and a few real jobs

So we ban sex education, contraception, abortion and preach solemnly of abstinence

Since our children learn so very little as it is, why would that ever work?

If we implanted contraceptives in all those first-time unwed mothers and irresponsible dads

Maybe we could end the multi-generational cycle of babies born on welfare

So we embrace religion in government and let them interpret our Father’s intent

Are we more righteous than those who rule thru the violent twisting of the Koran?

If we leave religion out of both government and foreign policy

Maybe we could live more peacefully with those we will truly never understand

So we made the jobs so bad that we wont take them but those despicable illegales will

How can we stop them breeding and staying and bringing in their friends and families?

If we make every job simply decent, then none would remain beneath us

Maybe we could retain our own standard of living, our language and our traditions

So we plunge bravely on under the aegis of faceless corporate supply side economics

Creating an angry, armed mob of outsourced techies and the proudly-ignorant poor

Perhaps formulaic slash and burn capitalism is not really the way to a free market utopia

Possibly there’s a steady-state economy in which overpaid sociopathic CEOs have no place

So they continue reducing issues to clever sound bites and catchy slogans

That way our political leaders on either side have no need of an educated population

If we send the spin doctors back to hyping products instead of selling the issues like dish soap

our brave leaders would have to learn to speak to us for themselves

so we wait until the price of oil makes it too expensive to drive to work

then they tell us it’s just a simple matter of consumer supply and our demand

they could see the supply was running low but demand just kept on increasing

but they never did a thing and now their powerful petro-donors reap a fortune

so we closed all the factories and outsourced all the engineering overseas

put the customer support in India and got all the latest numbers on computer

we invested only in the marketing and sales machines here at headquarters

but now the buyers realize our wondrous brand is simply more cheapass chinese shit

so we keep repeating that ours is The Finest Healthcare System In The World

but the admin costs, infant mortality and life expectancies don’t bear it out at all

though the money we spend tops everybody but we actually cure less but pay far more

and 50 million have the right to choose any ER they wish for their family healthcare

so we let em churn worthless home loans OKd just by greedy salesmen

and gave em cash back at closing to re-supply their credit cards

now we see they’re too big to fail so we must bail them out

once again the wisdom of unregulated free market solutions is revealed

so we react only when issues turn to crises but population keeps on increasing

muddling through with the quick and dirty, blind luck and the just for now

mortgaging the planet’s future behind winking smirks and infallible personal saviors

until it’s too expensive, widespread and complicated for us to do anything at all...

Office Professionals On Harleys

Fek your average overweight 44 year-old on the toy he owes so much on

Fek your loud add-on mufflers but not those tired, fat bitches hanging out over the back and sides

To hell with your identical machines lined up in front of safe chain motels

Piss on your stupid radios blasting country music as you noisily blare by

A pox on your bullshit weekend lifestyle, go back to the office where you belong

And screw as well the canned biker dreams you think that you are following

May heavy rain, breakdowns and construction delays waste your lost biker weekends

Put your damn stock mufflers back on and take out your silly earplugs

More chrome does not really counter your increasing decline in virility

A new leather jacket won’t make her slim as you once thought she maybe was

You don’t have the nads to ride it to work cause the boss might disapprove

Even the fastest are dogshit slow and handle like spavined nags

Make your hefty monthly payment instead of adding to your 401k, you moron

Pathetically put a Harley decal on the window of your overweight pickup truck

Express your freedom and independence like everybody else, there you little rodent

Gather by the thousands and reinforce your pitiable implanted delusions

Show us your ignorant and false movie machismo by not wearing a helmet

Take rocks and large insects right into your smooth, round and pudgy face

Lock up your brakes in the first emergency since you never learned to ride

Find out about high-siding when that 800 lb baby rolls up and on top of you

Keep it safe in the garage and just take it out on weekends

Never even consider how it’s just a waste of the money that you don’t really have

Don’t learn how to service them, just go bend over and be nice for the dealer

Then take off so wild and free with your cellphone in your pocket

Fek your Harley and it’s illusory lifestyle accessories and canned fantasies

Keep it safe and clean next to your bullshit performance sedan

And after you scare the shit out of yourself the first or second time

It’ll just sit there getting dusty and you’ll say you don’t have the time to ride

And the kids will knock it over and even you will ding it with the car door

Anyway, you can still both wear your leathers when you ride that other hog

A Common Sense Conservative Prayer

Help us to sleep well that we may pursue our greed with all our strength, in thy name

Bless that which favors our agenda over attempts we deem to curb our selfish freedom

Allow us to politically debate scientific evidence to advance profit-based corporate beliefs

Keep the underclass engaged with alcohol, tobacco, opiates, Meth, gambling and TV

Let us shoulder our exceptionism and export our culture and beliefs to the rest of the world

Free us from these unconstitutional restrictions on our speculatively-leveraged private property

Give us the strength to subdivide and bulldoze in the name of god and country

Bind us with the belief that blind greed always leads unerringly to a brighter future

Help us always find the cheapest and quickest way to profit and bear no future responsibility

Invite them to get the hell out if they do not like things the way they are here

Let us chant our mantra of rigged free trade in cheap imports and outsourced careers

Keep us steady on the course of hyper-consumption for its own holy sake

Find moral strength from sloganeering and mental nutrition in regurgitated sound bites

Realize for us the foolish paralysis which comes from thinking too deeply

Help us enrich society, one identical suburb and shoddy strip mall at a time

Absolve us with the belief that we cannot make any real difference, in any case

Give us gas for our giant, inefficient vehicles and we will not ask its source

Grant us zoning variances that we may further our Ponzi development schemes

Assist us in selling thy beauty even while our bulldozers roar in the background

Help us paint our opposition as weak, tired, whining yet fanatical squishes

Permit our CEOS to gate themselves safely away from that which they have created

Ensure that the pursuit of material goods is the only path marketed to self-actualization

May we overcome fuzzy notions of some sustaining biosphere for it threatens all our progress

Convince the unbelievers that golf courses are wondrous natural wetland sanctuaries

Spin as thy mysterious wisdom the fostering of poverty and ignorance across many generations

Help us to stay on message and to tightly control the flow of our clever propaganda

Assist us in inflaming hatred of the evil socialists who still sinfully oppose us

Give us the strength to ignore world opinion by granting us a blind righteousness

Lead us in our holy struggle against those hypnotized by an infidel religious fanaticism

Help us spread democracy even as we crown a comically-implausible God our own making

Allow us to ignore malaria, AIDS, cholera and dengue fever in the poor

And let us mostly research profitable cures for such as impotence, obesity, wrinkles and stress

Give us the wisdom never to question the suffering you allow us to cause on a daily basis

May we accept as your inscrutable will the natural disasters that devastate heathens everywhere

Remind us of our chosen status that we might ignore the plights of others without remorse

Let us know that God is love as we go forth with a curse on our lips and weapons in hand

Reveal to us after personal consultation in prayer, decisions that reflect thy will on policy issues

Grant us thy certainty such that we shall never need admit of any mistakes

Give us a bogeyman that we might continue scaring the people and enriching the arms peddlers

Help us slash entitlements to pay for tax cuts to the rich as well as to increase arms spending

Make us believe in our right to treat animals as mere units of factory raw material

Engender in us a smirking scorn for such silly issues as sustainability and habitat destruction

Bring us faith against global warming scams and calming beliefs about toxic pollution hoaxes

Reward us with great bonuses for eliminating jobs, benefits and pensions via

Let us cast off proposed regulations by intoning of their terrible costs in jobs and money

Take the future in thy hands that we may grab all that we can right now

Give us our daily factory white bread by the dirty truckload in throwaway plastic

Load us up with caffeine and sugar as we seek your everlasting peace

Fill us with desire for new automobiles and real estate speculation

Help us to spend far more than we will ever earn, without any guilt whatsoever

Entrust our parents to uncaring temp workers in corporate-owned nursing homes

Commit our children to day care with diseased illegales, even before they can speak

Blind us to the mass extinction we are bringing down all around and upon ourselves

Remove the dirty waters and the filthy air from any list of important issues

Grant us a comforting, rock-solid faith on metaphysical matters it unnerves us to consider

Help us relax using social media displacement activities right on through our own passing

Keep us so very busy that a sideways glance at a sunset is hardly noticed and quickly forgotten

Build a real scorn for the ancient history that took place all of 10 to 15 years ago

Nurture our pride in the ignorance of the technologies which we so depend on

Let us take for granted the hot water, lights and warmth of our homes

Stop us from ever questioning the madness of runaway military spending

Assist us in calling for better education while profitably outsourcing the jobs of the educated

Keep us calm, knowing you make the decisions and that our fate is simply your will

Grant us the right to belittle rigorous science using dumbed-down theology and corpro donations

Praise family values while allowing generations to grow up with ignorant mothers and no fathers

Blind us to our own hypocrisy that we may trumpet our beliefs free of guilt

Help them to realize that we alone are your chosen people, created in your image

Show us how to leap in faith over frightening cosmic mysteries to safe scriptural regulations

Let us expect our politicians to talk like preachers and never actually answer real questions

Satisfy us with a proud illiteracy and let us call simple arithmetic ‘doing the math’

Steer us away from genetic research and towards mandatory christian prayer in our schools

Bring back the sanctity of marriage and let thy word, as we interpret it, guide the courts

Fill us with the absolutely overriding importance of abortion as a public policy issue

Help us to cast conservation as a rather silly and unimportant virtue, of dubious value

Foster our soulful distinction from all other animals and thusly, our dominion over the earth

Give us the ability to ridicule that which we do not agree with or simply do not understand

Keep our mouths, eyes and ears shut until it makes no difference any more

Teach us to take refuge in mind-numbing, expensive and time-wasting wreckreation

Make us view Hitler as evil but our extinguishing 30 million Indians as our sacred Manifest Destiny

Help us build expensive prisons rather than taxing and regulating soft drugs

Let us spend billions on homeland security but be unable to evacuate cities from disasters

Content our children with prescription drugs, fatty foods and video games

Ensure that stock buybacks temporarily increase our stock price which yields us more fat bonuses

Guide us in extinguishing species by guaranteeing that their price increases with their scarcity

Fill us with a disdainful pride in the knowledge that we humans alone possess everlasting souls

Help us rip off original ideas to turn into mass marketing schemes for our corporate profits

Preserve the sanctity of intellectual property but only for we, the non-producing middlemen

Let us scoff at sustainable economic practices and greedily pile immense debt upon the future

Give us rich oil fields but not the vision to seek profitable, sustainable alternatives

Permit us to cast our own greedy desires as simply one small part of your slowly-revealed plan