Written by Robert S. Becker   

Can satire defy unhinged gangs
Who spew xenophobic harangues?
What reason checks malignancy
Or offsets juvenile delinquency?
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Ponder well the rightwing plight,
Halloween ghouls gushing fright:
Shock and awe to faith-driven brains
Already idling on the lowest octanes.
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While trumpery spreads its manure,
Fanatics stay ideologically pure;
So thugs distort and counterfeit
Befuddling the addled and unfit.
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'Rogues' mounting scientific hoaxes
Have nothing on rightwing roaches;
"Tho jammed with losers, we can be great:
Just batter barbarians at the gate."
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Gov'mint must foreigners invade,
Obscuring corruptions that degrade.
"Elect Trump, and we'll all be winners.
Endless wars against pagan sinners."
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Shred taxes, never the oil subsidy --
Crony, trickle-down chicanery;
Nothing horrifies like Obamacare,
Still dripping with power to scare.
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How best to filibuster history?
Defy questions rife with heresy.
Stuck dumb with debate amnesia,
Just eviscerate gotcha media.
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Recall the ferocious candidate
Desperate to own robes of state;
Who crawl from trenches with aplomb,
No downside for lying, just looking dumb.
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Yes, we know it's hard to be green
Or save politicking from the obscene:
To ascend as top dog over crazies,
You must ignite a blaze of sleaze.
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It ain't easy being Donald Trump,
Slickly munching on Tea Party rump.
Or politicians with real careers
Who fabricate, to universal cheers.
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The last-standing goon wins laurels
By outdoing the rote bamboozle;
Wing nuts who never master lying
Implode, all failed blitzkriegs dying.
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So restrain your rage and angry fists
Against goofy contortionists;
Pity the infamy for such hypocrites
All but one chump must call it quits.