Entering the Sandbox: The Politics of Juvenile Idiocy
Many introverted youngsters worried about bullies
Growing up in the public school system in any time period
Stealing their lunch money and beating them up
Between games of catch and soccer practice
What happens when those grade school punks grow up
When they never get sent to the Principal's office
Or sent to their rooms without any supper or technology
Never get properly taught the A-B-Cs of human decency
Helping old ladies cross the street or even holding a door for them
Picking up the tab at lunch just because it was their turn to pay
Kindness never instilled in the most extreme case of a sociopathic fool
An abuser who treated women like trophies held on their private mantel
A user who transformed their underlings into a disposable piece on a chess board
Playing a vicious game of Musical Chairs with everyone else's livelihood
Their elementary level taunts graduate into the Major League of adulthood
An arena where the score and the body count was tallied up by day's end
One with the lowest was terminated, the one with the highest rose in the ranks
Disturbing thought that education and good values meant little nowadays
Common sense doesn't matter when television news crews need soundbites
Ratings trumped logic and old fashioned good journalistic integrity
Walter Cronkite would've cringed if he was news anchor in today's society
Power yielded by people with the license to carry AK-47s
And the ability to put someone in jail or in harm's way
All for the sake of Uncle Sam's, or their own, mighty dollar
Being investigated for crimes against humanity and their own arrogance
A belief that everyone sharing their DNA were among the "Untouchables"
Immune from prosecution and the scrutiny of the free press
Frightening thought for those paying their dues in corporate drudgery
As well as their taxes and ever other fine imaginable
Time to hold the bullies accountable for their callous behavior
Let the legal system tear them to pieces and leave the reasonable alone
Will that happen?
Not if Fox News has anything to say about it.

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