Cleverly Disguised
Socialism
.
Masked as democracy
.
Satiating an ideal cloaked in delusion
By using a bogeyman word that frightens
With just four syllables and no thought
That it is occurring right under their noses
Demonizing something misunderstood
Which is easier than opening eyes, minds
.
When the government bails out
Auto manufacturers
That is socialism
When the government bails out
The banks
That is socialism
When the government bails out
Insurance companies
That is socialism
.
When the government
Sustains the military industrial complex
By building and never using the products
(Products, a euphemism for wmd’s)
For the simple sake to keep people busy
To have money to spend, taxes to pay
That is socialism
.
When the government
Sustains an unnecessary standing army
That is socialism
When the government
Frees corporations of tax obligations
To build sports stadiums
That is socialism
When the government
Bails out corporate farms due to
Bad international intentional trade wars
That is socialism
When the government
Passes discriminatory laws that
Purposefully fill “For Profit Prisons”
That is socialism
When the government uses the media
To disseminate its own soap opera of
Keeping eyes glued, sides chosen
Who dunnit, who’s guilty, who cares
With nary a mea culpa or youa culpa
To get you to buy unnecessary products
In a vicious cycle of buying, selling, trying
Returning, consuming, disposing, wasting
Not sharing, breaking and burying
.
Sponsored by hyperbolic claims of
If you buy this, injest that, get a faster
One of these, a shinier one of those
Drink a colder beverage, eat a better
Faster, more topping, artery clogging
Cheesier, tastier, heart stopping, hot pizza
.
Then you’ll be able to sleep on a better
Mattress, a cooler pillow, in a clean house
With a bigger appendage, a sexier bra
.
While your credit cards get maxed out
Causing you to become stressed out
Imbibing enough so you’ll be passed out
That is socialism
.
Plus
.
When the government
.
Wants to save a fetus
But kill a sovereign citizen or
Murder the wrongly accused
Or even the guilty as charged
.
That is hypocrisy
.
When the government
.
Presents the working class with a tax cut
That primarily benefits the wealthy
.
That is hypocrisy and theft
.
When the government
.
Has an alleged leader who averages six
To seven truth misrepresentations a day
.
That is charlatanism
.
Masquerade!
Every face a different shade…
Masquerade!
Look around –
there’s another
mask behind you!
//
Drink it in, drink it up
till you’ve drowned
in the light…
in the sound…
But who can name the face…?
(Of socialism)
“Masquerade”
Phantom Of The Opera
– Andrew Loyd Webber
