Unassign The Bogeyman

Fear not the bogeyman
Not under your bed
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Purge instead the one
Floating in your head
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Reiterated with a phonetic flair
Tinged with enough verbal twang
Saturated with stifling stink
And voila you have your bogeyman
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Pick any word ending with ist
To create a bogeyman
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Faux news consumers have
Locked on to Socialists as
Their phantom of choice
Something to be feared
Psyching up the courage
To battle an unseen specter
Conjured up from ignorance
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Socialist- one who advocates
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Socialism
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2b: a system or condition of society.             in which the means of production are  owned and controlled by the state.

– M-W.com
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Just because their name isn’t on it
Doesn’t mean they don’t control it
Or that they are not “socialist” programs
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Uninsured Motorist
Workman’s compensation
Social “Security”
Military Industrial Complex
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There in LIE the discrepancies
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People believing they are free
While being enslaved by banks
Pharmaceuticals, tax bills and…
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Corporations making the same
Products slightly faster and
Just a little bit shinier chaining
The consumer on the endless
Keep up with the “Joneses” treadmill
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Which from a different angle
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“Capitalistⁿ can be a bogeyman also
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Pronounced with a hard K
Delivered with an upturned nose
Surrounded by words like greedy
Stingy filthy rich money bags fat cat
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Where as if we evolved
In to a Meritocracy
All the best people
Would rise into the
Most necessary positions
Without a power grab
Rooted in fear or control
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One.
There are no meritocratists to fear
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Two.
It would be too hard to pronounce
To scare anybody anyway
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“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
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– Angelo Devlin