Joining the Cult

Senator Bob Corker* refers

To what has become the scary result

Of blind devotion to Donald Trump.

He calls the movement a GOP cult.

It's easy to join the cult if you

Don't mind sacrificing free will.

Getting out of the cult is another

Story; that will take some skill.

Members lose their sense of self

When they join the Cult of Trump.

When Trump says "Bow!" they all bow;

When he says "Jump!" boy they jump!

Cult members in Congress have

Handed legislative power

Over to Trump, their supreme

Leader before whom they cower.

Regarding constitutional

Authority: will it last?

Or will it suffer a slow death

And thus become a thing of the past?

All the Leader has to say

Is "They are wrong and I am right,"

And followers agree en masse.

Not to agree would be impolite.

Effusive praise and allegiance must go

To the Leader who is all-about-me.

He says he knows what's good for you.

Woe to you if you disagree.

It used to be that presidents

Worked for the people, but we have found

That currently with the Cult of Trump,

It's the other way around.

How many more will drink the Kool-Aid?

Who else will fall under Trump's spell?

Remember Jonestown? In the end,

Things did not go very well.

-by Bob B (6-14-18)

*Republican Senator from Tennessee