[Newspoetry] It's not just for Halloween... Why Clinton ought tobe stopped...

[DL Emerick]

Never second guess yourself --
You can't win an infinite regression
No circular arguments catch their tails:
"I'd vote for K or O, if it were MY choice,
but (the logic of self-defeat) 'We' must win
(to keep even worse bastards out),
so I'll vote for C as she can 'win'."

That's how we got Kerry in 2004
(as the candidate who could beat Bush,
And we saw how that worked out!)
And also how we got Bill in 1992
(as the candidate who would win
And be different from Bush the Elder,
And we saw how that worked out, too).

This is how we get the lesser of two evils,
Where the difference between them is only rhetorical,
A slimy matter of smooth words and sound bytes,
Appealing to the ear, as if to reason,
But, in fact, having the same policies,
More or less, and changing nothing.
(Old Poster: The lesser of two evils is still evil.)

The party pros want a winner.
WHY?  Why is there no Santa Claus!
Winning has nothing to do with policy,
Even less to do with ideology --
Victory to the party mendicants
Means high ranking jobs,
Access to government favors,
Perks, privileges and honors.

You can read this stuff I spout
In "professional" political science textbooks,
Intoned and droned, volumes of volume,
Where it is thrown at you,
"don't be so naïve".

The pros think nothing of "true believers"
As such persons are thought delusional, perhaps,
And dangerous, even and ever and more so --
Such folk won’t be satisfied by quid-pro-quo,
The bargain prices men of no honor accept,
For pros are always willing to make a deal --
To sell their souls (or yours, better yet!)

A rhetoric of principles to pros is mere costuming,
And reflects nothing they deeply believed,
Nor ever even fervently desired.

Pros play the ideologies, like fishing lines,
Snagging all the fish not fit for survival,
And gutting them for meals of fish and chips,
"I'll have mine with a brew, thank you!"
Party on, dudes, never live the dream --
Just the fantasy you minimaxed as life.