"History Has Its Eyes on Us"

Hateful campaigns polarize

The public; salacious scandals abound;

Demagogues stir up the voters;

Vicious rumors are passed around;

Threats are made if one's opponent

Wins the race; fake news spreads;

Internal strife within the parties

Has the members at loggerheads;

Security leaks flow from the top;

Vitriolic accusations

Denigrate opponents; we hear

Of more and more allegations;

Threats are levied at the free press;

The masses suspect the educated;

Verbal assaults on the judiciary

Are brazen and unsubstantiated;

Fears of election fraud are raised;

Hypocrisy knows no end;

Little attention is paid to the truth

As people don't care whom they offend;

Candidates "pump the popular passions";

Hush money's paid; stories don't jibe

As lawmakers find themselves

Susceptible to paying a bribe.

It sounds like politics and elections

In America from what we've seen

Happening in the past few years

Leading up to twenty eighteen.

But this was also America

In the year 1800.  Since such

Chaos occurred back then as well,

It shows we haven't changed that much.

-by Bob B (3-30-18)