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In spite of what the mighty
goodthink-streaming  discord-seeding
Misdirection Machine ceaselessly spouts
       the things it deems our struggles to be
       aren't by any means what they're about.

They're not about black vs white  left vs right
       or anything   so gaslight radiatingly fake.
What they're about
is us vs Them   the point-oh-one percent
— about us ever getting a close-to-fair shake.


This being the case  it's no wonder artificial
attention-shepherding  populace-splintering
wars of diversion are continuously waged
       by the money-power's officer knaves
       and its armies of witless useful-idiot bots;

are continuously staged to divide and distract
the unwary grunts from the smouldering fact

that at the direction  of demons up top
economic and spiritual repression
are wielded  with a zeal akin to possession
against us  superfluous serfs they want dead;
we 'useless eaters' they'd wished hadn't bred.


Despite  being rigorously drilled to suppose
that nothing matters so much as combating
              a steady succession of notional foes
— foes our programmers make nakedly clear
it's our duty to loathe and fervently fear —

what reality reveals is the ironclad proof
that the battle that matters is right vs wrong
not the ruse of illusions we're spoonfully fed;

that the conflicts that count are deceit vs truth
goodness and light  vs darkness and evil
       and tyranny's truly immutable threat
       to unalloyed joy and god-given freedom.


The cause of our division
              is never what we're told.
It's not this or that ism  or young vs old;
not things like religion or political leanings
              nor things like sex or age or race.

What divides us is us   naively believing
       the ever-deceptive fiends at the helm
who tell us such lies to keep us in place
at war with each other  instead of with them.

It's not about the hustle of right vs left
       or which puppeteered party we back;
it's not about white brown or black
                            about this creed or that
or even alphabet-gendered women and men.

It's all about top vs bottom   good against bad
and mad vs sane  — it's all about us vs Them.


Unwaveringly true to the fools
              the fates have us play in this life
sadly  we slice  and dice ourselves into tribes
                     at the stealth behest of our rulers;

into tribes shrewdly maneuvered
              by the-powers-that-be to prevent
we-the-plebs from uniting and fighting
              the possessed  point-oh-one percent.