FAME AND SHAME

FAME AND SHAME
ARC (c) 1/25/20

We all know the history of America’s greatness:
Constitution: Words Majestic/Right – We the People.
Flip side slavery/disenfranchisement:
demonic swamp to magnificent steeple.

We inched along: infant to Europe’s span:
Liberty beckoned: kith/kin fled poverty/oppression.
Indians/Asians/Blacks/Women/Immigrants struggled for place:
endured test of conception with North Win Civil War secession.

Duality haunts us through two centuries:
laws made to discriminate shame inheritance.
Jim Crow – Gay Discrimination – Unequal Pay:
Suffragism/Civil Rights/SS/Medicare fame relevance.

WWII threatened freedom ideals Europe/here:
spirit of best dominated sex, culture, race, age.
Watergate shocked and threatened:
‘Checks and Balances’ worked like notable sage.

Family turned in Unabomber:
country safety is precedent over kin.
Separate church/state foundation strong:
President acting above law is sin.

Another Armageddon crossroads is here:
‘Give me liberty or give me death’ ancient cry.
Politicians on center stage with Supreme Judge:
shame or remove imposter to raise America high.