Opinions formed by errant norms and held by stubborn minds
Confirmed by daily affirmations, led down alleys blind
News and views which serve to feed the certainty thats felt
Avoiding facts which threaten to uset the cards we’re dealt.
We choose a flag which represents the feelings that we hold
And look towards the fictions and believe the lies we’re told
As we seel a strength in numbers we align within our tribe
Despair at what the others think and arm ourselves with jibes
In often jeering rhetoric we make our voices heard
We sloganeer and offer sneers to spread our tribal words
We layer up our arguments and varnish them in pride
We smear the opposition and decry the other side.
We look for reasons to oppose whatever’s being said
Unthinkingly regurgitate the things that we have read
Refusing to concede an inch we doubledown our verse
And validate our reasoning, polarity grows worse.
In this time of opposition where we find ourselves at war
We dig ever deeper trenches and we sometimes break the law
We use slander and we libel those whose views we cant abide
Adding vitriol to poisoned thoughts and know that we have lied.
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