POET’S LAMENT
I do not wish to get stuck
in the MAGA yuck and muck.
I wonder if those Germans
who watched fascism unfold
believed the stories they were told
by their brownshirt supported bully;
as the MAGA-hatted crowds
who cheer our own
American grown version
of violent political rhetoric
mant to intimidate and eradicate
those whose power they fear,
and propelled by a sense
of victimhood raised to an art
they plot and plan and strive
to drive Americans apart.
A nation may not survive at all.
Or, if it can survive it may not be intact.
And freedom may be forestalled
until the danger stops casting its pall
on its very survival.
So, instead of love and flowers,
sunny skies and dreamy hours
I write of dangers big and small.
I write of questions which call
for prompt response.
I note with dismay the loss of time to play.
I wish for earlier days
when citizens felt a duty to stand and say
democracy is under threat this day.
DREAMS OF HYPOCRISY
The dream stayed with me through the night.
Over and over the image repeated despite
frequent awakenings disturbed by the sight
of four babies with open staples in their eyes.
No matter other images crossing left to right
in dreams arranging matters as they might,
allowing mind to gain much-needed insight.
Those babies needed someone to make right
harms foreseen if removal was not done right.
I struggled with ideas of how to help all night.
Finally, firmly grip with tiny tools and pull tight
became the answer as I awoke at first daylight.
Then a new thought occurred and set truth alight,
“…first, remove the beam out of thine own eye.”
But, then a new thought came to light.
The staples were open to grab whatever came in sight
and make it their own view, with new and greater insight.
annarino writes 
State’s Rights and Fascist Court ?
I just ate an entire bag of Milano double dark chocolate cookies. Better that than crying in outrage that separation of church and state has overcome our constitutional rights as white politicians within the Republican Party exploit the personal faith of voters to retain their control of government. Why? Because of their racism and sexism, and gender fears. And, to allow corporate and private wealth to stay in power through them, personally rewarding them financially and supporting filling their campaign chests.
These protagonists blocked the Equal Rights Amendment for women in my youth. Women finally got the right to vote but it and other civil rights have never explicitly been assured. This is one reason the privacy rights under the constitution was used to explain why women have a legal civil right to decide their health care rights and family planning rights.
This same reasoning was used to protect a couple’s right to use birth control. That right is now also facing elimination according to Justice Thomas’ dissent.
The Supreme Court is our greatest and final protector of our freedoms and civil rights. Today, the court threw women to the wolves. They invaded the privacy right of a woman to her own body. They destroyed a woman’s right to safeguard her mental and physical health. Her rights no longer belong to her. They belong to state legislatures. women no longer have rights equal to men in this nation.
We have been here before. Despite the end of enslavement of African-Americans recognition of their civil rights took another 100 years to secure. And, those rights, including the right to vote are again, still, under siege. The Voting Rights Act has been eviscerated. Will the supreme Court’s States Rights Rule now be applied to any individual’s right to equality and freedoms? This case opens that door. The decision today directs us through that door.
The violence and intimidation against women is now supported by our Supreme Court, using its judicial powers. I fear it will soon be the same for people of color, LGBTQT community … indeed any group the white supremacist leaders supported by our churches think they have a right to control.
Today’s decision is far worse than overturning abortion rights. It overturns equal rights. I fear it is not only women who are under threat. Our very identity as a free society , as an American society, was destroyed today.
I am out of cookies. Out of words. Only tears remain. Fascist Court? Not usually 2 words that go together. They do now!
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