“When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross.” Sinclair Lewis
Patriarchal Madness America the weird, your beauty fades to ash, a sickness rules your land, emancipation's dead and gone, no one matter's unless you're hetero, male and lustre white, no further pretence of separation, now a veiled leer of legalese, deliberately obscuring any path to freedom, the Joker is your new reveal, a dance of death is now begun, you want your children stupid, and make your women chattels, your favourite toys are killers like your warped religious views, your mouths are open graves and you speak of god in pentagrams, while your morals are carved of blood, and your unseemly rush to Salem will consume your generations in fiery piles of your patriarchal wrath. Copyright 2022 ©Paul Vincent Cannon All Rights Reserved ®️
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These jump out at me:
“you want your children stupid,
and make your women chattels,
your favourite toys are killers”
It is a disease and we are all being sickened by it. I’m sure there are other countries who are waiting in the wings to step in and take over. When politicians’ new MO is to keep the population polarized how will we be able to stand against it. I was talking with my older son yesterday and when he responded half of the population is happy with how things are unfolding it made me want to flee. Not sure what would be worse, staying in this seething cauldron of idiocy or leaving and watching it implode from a distance…
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Yes, what to do. To go invites a vulnerability to similar events further down the trail. In our recent federal election voters eschewed the growing christian candidacies because they were pro-life, anti-environment (science), and wanting christian values (whose/which ones?) implemented. They are complete nuts. We talked about the possibility of going to NZ if things got bad, but that is temporarily not a thing for us now. Yes, so polarised – I cannot believe it has come to that, but there it is. I know people were angry with Hillary, but they ignored her warnings! I nearly didn’t post this, it is a less vulgar version, but I’m as mad as hell.
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Well said, Paul!
Hope some of your fellow males don’t disown you for daring to apparently dis those who prefer to do the dissing.
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I nearly didn’t post it, but this is a less vulgar version that might have erupted badly, willing to take the flack Pat – more likely on Twitter, most people on my feed in here are not that sort. Many thanks for your encouraging words.
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I really like this version and glad you found a way to write about it.I wrote about the recent Supreme Court decision and had a white male accuse me of marginalizing white males and why didn’t I also marginalize other groups? I tried to explain that no group likes to marginalized. Two other white males liked his first comment and one of them asked a similar question, but in a less hostile manner. I expanded the answer that no group likes to be marginalized. Commenter one doubled down so I blocked his second comment as he seemed more to be looking for a fight than a discussion. I have only done that to one other person who started to demand his rights to comment on my blog when I suggested that his response might be more suitable as an entire post on his own blog.
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Men are so weak at times, insecure, ego bound, they always seem to need approval, out of place in an equal culture. Goon on you for blocking, arguing is never easy, but especially when it bears no fruit. No one has a right to comment on someone else’s blog, it is a privilege we share. I like your way Pat.
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I stopped Twitter a few years ago but sometimes like today when researching a candidate, there were some tweets from there I agreed with: Ruben Gal…
@RepRubenGal…• 17h
All of the “pro-life” politicians voted against
the Child Tax Credit and our baby formula bill
They don’t care about life, they care about
control.
We will fight back. This is far from over.
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In 1869, Congress set the number of Supreme
Court justices at 9 to align with the fact that
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There’s some talk of expanding the circuit.
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Too. True.
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What a bloody mess Ana
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Hey, I just discovered that Australia’s Caucasian population was initiated just like ours: British criminal deportations. Explains a lot, doesn’t it?
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O it sure does, I was a migrant child in the sixties from UK, so distancing myself lol, but there is a subtle difference here, there was a boom bust cycle which is much our political cycle ever since, however the boom mob are the privileged lot, the conservatives and religious perverters.
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Yes, I think the manipulating entities have, if less polished and entrenched, a more volatile population to work with there than we have become since our own West was still somewhat wild.
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Our politicians can be dumb, some are just dumb, but not so dumb that they’d treat the population yours have in recent years.
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I’m no expert, but I believe you, no problem.
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If only we could devise a system that delivers ethical, intelligent and sane candidates 🙂
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When we can, we will discover we don’t need them. We all know how to act.
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Yes, imagine!!
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I do, every day. It’s my job. 🙏
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🙂 Excellent work 🙂
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Well, thank you, sir 😊
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Sir eh? Knight of the realm at your service 😉
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Oooooh, such a dashing one, too!
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😉 Ok I’ll take that 🙂
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😆👌
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😉
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Actually, sitting in the middle of it, I’d say what we have right here is an attempted rise of the Fourth Reich.
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Yes, it looked that way in 2015 the way trump was angling and talking, and the people he had around him (sounds and behaves like a mobster) and then the way he stacked the DOJ and flouted the rules …. and everyone turned a blind eye on his side.
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Unfortunately, I cannot see his competition as much superior ~ only politically slicker. There’s a problem in that we can never really know ~ it’s all media spin. If I took everything political I “know” and reduced it to everything I really know, the remaining total would not be impressive, right?
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Same, we don’t know, and only hindsight offers some insight into the whole, smoke and mirrors, but they know and they play it.
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PLAY it. 🙄
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Going downhill fast
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Yes, I wonder where it might end?
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Seems like every day it’s descending to centuries ago
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Yes, astounding
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So sad that your post isn’t fiction.🙁
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I just yearn for a return to positive community, Just thinking about the good that could be done if everyone worked for the common, positive good. Thank you Pat. 🙂
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Timely.
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Thank you Rupali, what a weird time we are in.
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I’m just sick about what the land of my birth has become. I have no more words.
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O Liz, I wish I had a cure, a balm, but I don’t …
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Thank you for the thought, Paul.
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You’re very welcome Liz.
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boom boom nothing could be truer, well said Paul and that quote is perfect!
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What a shit-show in the US, and narrowly avoided here recently, I’m not given to sides so much these days, but I do accept George Carlin’s dictum: “Men aren’t pro-life, they hate women” God I hate conservatives.
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George Carlin was often speaking for us. I wonder what he would do today
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Weep I think.
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they want their women chained shackled and submissive … 😦
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Yes, as was becoming evident here too on the fringe of the LNP, scary stuff.
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very, so glad they’re out but they have left such a mess 😦
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Yes, it will take some time to heal, sigh.
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Thanks for the visit, Paul. 😉
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My pleasure, I must confess, my lack of diligence in attending more regularly.
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So many sites so little time.
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Ha, but even so no excuses for the one’s who stay.
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I wish I could leave, but where to go? Seems the whole world is going mad in one way or another 😦
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So true, tempting but not helpful I believe as it is everywhere, it’s the surfing that matters, riding these awful waves of negativity.
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OMG Paul!!! What an awesome verse and post!!! Loved the Sinclair Lewis Quote!! How Psychic and sad! What he left out was – And delivered by radical religious zealots parading around in the robes of Supreme Court Justices! 😢😢😒
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What a mess Chuck, but the underbelly has been fully exposed now. Thank you for the accolade my friend.
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So appreciated your post and the Sinclair Lewis quote! America needs the prayers of the world. Hardly, an example of Excellence anymore, sadly!!
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It sure is in a bad way, your houses of government, you DOJ, the CIA, the constitution, SCOTUS (which always reminds me of scrotum), Black lives, indigenous issues and so much more going down. I guess at least it’s all out in the open now.
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥On point!!! Very well put 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
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Thank you so much for this 🙂
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Well said, Paul. No sign to get better…
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No but everyone can see the mess now so choices need to be made I guess.
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Thank you so much for that.
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Reblogged this on Wind Rush and commented:
Paul has clarified so well the vague thoughts of disgust and outrage that have been swimming in my head lately. He’s an excellent poet on many topics; I recommend that you check out his site if you already haven’t.
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That is so kind LuAnne, very much appreciated and so too for the thoughtful words of recommendation.
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Paul, this is such a powerful poem. Your word choice is superb. I particularly liked:
your favourite toys are killers
your mouths are open graves
your morals are carved of blood,
the rush to Salem(‘s) fiery piles of your patriarchal wrath
I particularly liked the last one because it links the misogamy of the Salem witch trials to the SCOTUS ruling. I think the link works. I reblogged, I hope you don’t mind. I would also like to share this with my writer’s group if you don’t mind.
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Yes, I agree – thank you so much for the reblog LuAnne, I sure don’t mind at all.
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Many thanks
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Ah dystopian movies and series like the grand Soylent Green. Planet of the Apes. And of course Handmaids Tale. Prior to this it was Malthusian and tech solved that issue. They’ve been predicting the demise of man throughout history.
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Ah, we have the same watch list I see, yes, humanity in demise at its own hands too.
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Yes indeed. Malthus thought we couldn’t increase crop yields. Oh he was so wrong. Just look at how technology has advanced just since WW 2. The leading device from that era was a Bell Labs invention called the transistor. Big chunky thing now they’re measured in nanometers. Just count up the tech in one’s home count the CPUs. Just around me right now I count 12 with billions of transistors. It’s changed everything from medicine, retail, offices, farming and cars. Take the car we’ve pushed ic engines to the point 4 cylinders can propel an s.u.v to over 100mph.
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But somehow we never learn
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Wow what a corker of a poem – such truth spoken with eloquence and power
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Thank you so much Lyn 🙂
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Strong and powerful writing.
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Thank you very much Ian, this is a more polite version, the original was, well somewhat vitriolic.
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So terrifyingly true, Paul.
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Sadly so Rosaliene, I wonder which way for ward for the US and most western democracies.
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