Cliches are used to describe
beliefs held by members of the tribe.
Fellow Travelers need never think.
They simply repeat without a blink.
They readily follow the scripted lines
which leaders lay down clean and fine
on minds at ease and entertained
by political games played again and again.
Fellow Travelers are nothing new.
Names have changed as hatred grew.
Stalin or Putin, Hitler or Ali Khamenei,
Leni Riefenstahl or Kelly Anne Conway,
Mitchell or Flynn, Himmler or Halloway,
Chamberlin or Trump, Goring or Meadows,
“Both sides are good people” and happy fellows.
No Fellow Traveler deserves a pass.
Two Party systems have paved the way
to allow us to defeat hate each voting day.
Until now, when an entire party has become
the Fellow Traveler of world leaders of hate
whose acts of oppression and crimes of war
remind us humanity has not come so far
as we imagined and hoped and prayed.
We must vote them out next election day.
Elections have never mattered more.
No Fellow Traveler can be allowed
to cross the threshold of Congress’ door.
No Fellow Traveler can take up residency
in The White House of our nation’s presidency.
No nation can remain free
whose voters cannot think independently.
annarino writes 