We are not Immune

History tells us

it’s not only the flock are impacted

even those who will never believe their propaganda

can be effected by these insidious tactics.

Simultaneously they seek to groom their supporters

and gaslight critics directly from from the dispatch box

and via their apparatus of right wing reporters.

They expand this gulf in interpretation

with crowbar and brute force rhetoric,

they wrench this division wide open.

It’s, exhausting,

an unending effort to keep the truth alive.

It’s the urgent pressure of keeping history

from being washed away with the tide.

The intended result of this rift in perception:

is maddening frustration that turns to apathy:

giving up on any attempt to see the distinction.