Burning Issues

Forget about democracy on its last legs, OK?
Forget that climate change is broiling life on Earth away
Forget about forced girls forced by pro-life to rights negate
To preserve the rights of their rapists’ ejaculate
Forget about real issues of which there’s such vast amounts

The issue of energy efficiency’s all that counts.

Refrigerator Freedom is the newest rally cry
In Congress along with making dishwashers less wet more dry

With energy efficiency Congress will do away

To reduce household appliance costs so MAGAs say

But really it's another rear guard action by the right

Against government intervention against which states fight.

Forget about America the world used to respect

Until Trump drove it insane with unstable intellect

But with the greatest conman genius the world’s yet seen

That stripped saps of their life savings by endorsing streaks mean

Racism misogyny and other isms are

The coin of the mad realm into which our descent’s gone far.

And so of course Republicans want to eliminate

Energy efficiency while democracy’s fate

And the whole Earth’s is hanging by a thread that’s grown more frayed

As denial deflects self-blame from those greed’s waylaid

Into the belief amassed wealth ensures they’ll stay alive

(When you’re a rich White MAGA male God wants you to survive!).

Rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic would seem

The simile best suited to sum up the current scene

America now faces as insanity prevails

Aided and abetted by Biden’s debate travails

One party’s burning issue is to all those not them screw

The other’s is to find some clue about what next to do.

11 July 2024

Florida Rep. Laurel Lee Says She’s “Committed To Protecting Consumer Choice” After Passage Of Refrigerator, SUDS Act https://flip.it/eTWIGn