Here's to the RepubliCON Party

Here's to the RepubliCON Party,

For underneath its banners, evil draws no lines,

In its haughty rhetoric, countless falsehoods you will find.

Party fat cats finance bald-faced lies time after time,

The calendar is lyin' when it reads the present time.

Whoa here's to every citizen you've poisoned the heart of,

RepubliCONs find yourself another country to be part of!

And here's to people in the RepubliCON Party

Who claim liberals and centrists, just don't understand

And tremble in subservience to Neo-Nazis and the Klan

Tears and sweat can't wash the blood off their hands

They smile and shrug their shoulders at the cruelty of a man

So, here's to every citizen you've poisoned the heart of,

RepubliCONs find yourself another country to be part of!

And here's pundits and scholars in the RepubliCON Party

Who prattle and preach to citizens that they don't have to care

Stoking resentments and hatred among people everywhere

Their every program or policy stokes suspicion and despair

Not a one champions equality anytime or anywhere

Whoa here's to every citizen you've poisoned the heart of,

RepubliCONs find yourself another country to be part of!

And here's to due process under the RepubliCON Party

The spewing of bigotry and racism has resumed with a roar

Biases blind them to justice as they knock you to the floor

No, they like to push up the body count in a private racist war

Their tarnished badges hide murderers by the score

Oh, here's to every citizen you've poisoned the heart of,

RepubliCONs find yourself another country to be part of!

And, here's to the new Justices from the RepubliCON Party

Who wear robes of honor as they slither into the court

They guard all bastions of the patriarchy they support

And justice is a stranger to those with whom they consort

Minority and women's rights will always come up short

So, here's to every citizen you've poisoned the heart of,

RepubliCONs find yourself another country to be part of!

And here's to governance by the RepubliCON Party

In the swamp, they’ve created through greed and power lust

Criminals pose as Senators and Mayors to gain our trust

And they hope we won’t see the sights or hear the sounds

Of their speeches that resemble ravings of demented clowns

Oh, here's to every citizen you've poisoned the heart of,

RepubliCONs find yourself another country to be part of!

And here's to the laws under the RepubliCON Party

RepubliCON officials gather all the loot their patrons will pay

While our Constitution they assiduously dishonor and betray

Contraception does not matter, and men rule in every way

Yes, misogyny is pervasive when the RepubliCONs hold sway

Whoa here's to every citizen you've poisoned the heart of,

RepubliCONs find yourself another country to be part of!

And here's to pastors and preachers in the RepubliCON Party 

While wrapped in the flag and brandishing a cross, 

Put both patriotism and piety forever at a loss

And sermonize on Sunday morning to justify power lust

As fallen heroes and martyrs are trampled in the dust

It seems blatantly obvious in what malicious God they trust

So, here's to every citizen you've poisoned the heart of,

RepubliCONs find yourself another country to be part of!

Larry Conley

14 July 2018

With gratitude and respect to Phil Ochs [Here’s-to-the-State-of-Mississippi]

Photo credit: http://jobsanger.blogspot.com/2014/11/gop-Venn-diagram.html