{"id":226,"date":"2023-07-11T01:21:03","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T09:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.garrettware.com\/?p=226"},"modified":"2023-08-11T22:51:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T06:51:59","slug":"a-political-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.garrettware.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/11\/a-political-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"An American Political Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">You protect, you attack, you build a wall and have a snack, but your politics, dear Republicans, fall through the cracks. Your promises crumble like a house made of cards, leaving us disillusioned, yet not caught off guard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">You claim to champion freedom, yet deny equal rights, leaving marginalized voices lost in endless fights. Your tax breaks for the wealthy, a glaring divide, while the middle class struggles, barely able to survive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">You speak of fiscal responsibility, a clever guise, while deficits soar, like a bird that never flies. The trickle-down economics, a worn-out charade, leaving the masses yearning, their dreams betrayed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">You dismiss climate change, ignoring Earth&#8217;s plea, as the planet grows warmer, the consequences we see. While science warns of dangers, you turn a blind eye, putting profits over the planet, waving our future goodbye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">You play with voter rights, suppressing democracy&#8217;s voice, leaving fairness and justice with no other choice. Gerrymandering districts, distorting the will, while the people&#8217;s power slowly chills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">You claim to champion freedom of speech with pride, yet dissenting voices are silenced, pushed aside. Truth becomes subjective, a twisted dance, as misinformation spreads, fueled by chance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">So, dear Republicans, your walls may be tall, but they can&#8217;t hide the flaws of your policies&#8217; fall. It&#8217;s time for progress, and a new direction, where all voices are heard, with no need for correction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Let&#8217;s build bridges, not walls, embracing diversity, where compassion and justice become our shared goal. For a brighter future, we must break this partisan trap, and rise above the failures of your politics, dear GOP\/Rightwing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Inspired by the wonderful <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/JIo7OR_h6zo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Emma Thorne<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You protect, you attack, you build a wall and have a snack, but your politics, dear Republicans, fall through the cracks. Your promises crumble like a house made of cards, leaving us disillusioned, yet not caught off guard. You claim to champion freedom, yet deny equal rights, leaving marginalized voices lost in endless fights. Your &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.garrettware.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/11\/a-political-poem\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An American Political Poem&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.garrettware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.garrettware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.garrettware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.garrettware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.garrettware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.garrettware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"https:\/\/blog.garrettware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.garrettware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.garrettware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.garrettware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}