The Sith (The Death of Compromise)

(Here is a Soundtrack to go with this Poem . . .! Listen to it while reading . . .! Enjoy! )

We should Sing the praises of a Man Named Lucas . . .

For from the annals of an ingenious 

Imagination . . . We have a Concept of What Now Plagues Us . . .

They hiss their decades-old mantra, now so infamous . . .

We hear it everyday . . . it whispers, harsh and callous . . .

"If You're Not WITH Us . . .!?"

Tunes and cheers still coast into the cold January air

Tears of Joy stream yet again, but caustic enough to sear

The number Twenty into the minds of supporters marking the first year

Of a historic first in this nation . . . and with us the world did cheer . . .!

T'would seem that America had turned the page on Fear

Rejected the bloody and expensive misadventures of previous years . . .

Our 'Luke' had eloquently dueled an acolyte of Sidious last year 

And His Pet, the self-labeled Mama Grizzly Bear . . .

The Pig with the Lipstick ran from the Pitbull now with fear . . .!

Hope had directed masterful strokes . . . to finally tear

Down and parry the thrusts of Plutocratic Styles of Yester-Years

Dancing with a flowing White Gown, 'Leah' with 'Luke' clear

A path on the dance floor of our minds and purify the once-tortured national air . . . 

"The Force of Change is with Us All . . .!" . . . All could hear this cheer!

Palpable strength and confidence . . . infused the Night Air . . .!

" . . . You're AGAINST Us. . .!"

Within earshot, within line of sight of the Jubilations . . .

Grumbling, morose, Infamous Patrons

Plot down-right treasonous machinations . . .

Their Souls twisted, misshaped by a lust for, an addiction

To Power and zealous, Fundamentalist Notions

About the incredulity that the progeny of once-enslaved ones

Could possibly be 'worthy' of a place in that Public Housing Mansion.

They thought it impossible that such Dusky Ones

Could ever attain such a large 'Check of Legitimacy' to spend in the Great Institution

In such an overwhelming and utterly mandated fashion . . .!

But all the same, such 'rule' MUST be stunted for the Good of Their Nation . . .

Not THE Nation . . . THEIR Nation, THEIR Vision chiseled into the Constitution

Of entitled dominance for all time of their ilk, needed 'urgent' preservation!  

Lesser pedigree (Like Those Ones!) must be relegated Back to the Fraction;

The throw-away compromise of the three-fifths to appease Confederate Factions

In order to get to First Base with our Virgin Constitution . . .

Ahh!  . . . Now it becomes clear the meaning and motivation

Behind their Dark Jedi Horde's Battle Cry of Aggression:

"We must Take Our Country Back . . .!", so says young Dark Paduans

"I can FEEL Your Anger!  Let us use it to Focus, fellow jilted ones . . .!"

So said the Poll-Tested, Insidious One, the Master of Deception . . .

Success must not be had by That One . . .

And it matters not if the Country . . . the World is about to kiss destruction!

"Our Great Sith Lords are on board . . . and will complete The Mission . . .!"

The Senate and Media are now totally enthralled, controlled by other Dark Ones . . .

"We'll turn the people against their Jedi saviors . . . in sheer frustration."

"We'll use all resources and assets long-buried in societal institutions,

And, using the Dark Side of the Force, Luke will be blamed for the exacerbation . . .

The screws will tighten . . . It will bleed Jobs, Wealth, Shelter . . . Desperation

Will be in overload . . . won't be long before Order 66 will be in full motion

Routing, for a few election cycles, the election machinery of our naive 'loyal opposition'

From all traditional Haunts all across and within this Nation!"

And on this path with militaristic precision,

They set about the destruction of the Idea of this great nation

To remake the country in their Own Image . . . A Randian Utopia of strict, epic proportions . . .!

"You're NOT . . . WITH Us!"

The Shroud of the Dark Side has indeed fallen . . .

The Jedi needed to be united, focused to defeat this insipid contagion

Some astute Jedi said: "I sense a plot to destroy us from within and without all across this great nation . . .!"

But like Carbon Monoxide the Hate in that hallowed Chamber cleared

The Oxygen of that good sense of warning from most of the other Jedi there

From unprecedented, wanton breaks in decorum by disrupting and in clear

Disrespect to the POTUS as he addresses the State of the Republic that year . . .

Accusing the President of lies that echo shrilly in the chamber air . . .

To deliberate denial of privileges granted to the Executive to address matters dear

And grave to the public . . . It all seemed too obvious, that malevolence had come to bear

Rearing the ugly head of prejudice, displaced rage to the House that now Dies Drear

"Not to worry," said Luke.  "Bi-partisanship will be had this year!"

The Newly crowned Hero, it seemed was anemic as well some feared . . .

But . . . such rhetoric was how Luke got here . . .

Loki it seems has lent his immortal talents to the Sith you see . . .

Because all throughout the Jedi ranks distrust and disunity

Squandered Golden Capital . . . like Drunks on Fridays and their Monies!

The greater good of the Order and indeed the Republic started to atrophy.

Seems this new devilry was a new Force Construct wielded masterfully

Hidden within the enemy's system like a trojan, to be unwittingly

Activated to rueful, ingenious efficacy, without them getting their hands 'dirty'.

Many among the Jedi who carried Blue Sabers emblazoned with the Mythic Hound . . .

Acted like Dark Jedi, by the seemingly-oblivious way they cede ground . . .

They collude with in tandem, in frustrating unison as they pall around

On media events with their supposed adversaries wishing for Luke to 'slow down'.

For two years, on every major policy push . . . such 'peculiarities' abound . . .

And for two years the resulting stagnancy, the psychopathy of watering-down 

Much treasured and needed legislation and reforms angered so many around

Irksome blisters of chicken pox create deep craters way down 

In the fragile Mindscapes of a desperate public, weary with yet another 'familiar sound'

That rings hollow; anaerobic sickly fauna with little 'meat' on the bones seem to abound

The ensuing eruption buries all under the ashes of anger, and Massachusetts goes down! 

Tufts of Patience's Hair litter the ground . . . And in walks briskly Sith #41: Darth 'Maul':

A beautiful, once-solemn temple of physical avarice, spreadeagled around

Scrolls of naked flesh . . . He once was the talk of the town!

Some of Luke's Jedi grew skittish, erroneous about the reason the Loss went down

The mandate from 2008 STILL applies!; a weak local Jedi drowned

In the tide of hubris that was just too much to get over, and get around

But these wayward, clueless Jedi had no idea what was already inbound . . .

From the forgotten reaches the Politiverse with a deafening and frightening sound . . .

" . . . You are AGAINST US . . .!"

The Asteroid of 2010 slammed home; The Anti-matter of Progress the ejecta spewing all over the place . . .

Those Sprouts of Recovery that somehow managed to eek out a space

To start to consume the Sunlight of the Future, despite unpatriotic disgrace,

Despite the Arsenic being thrown at it's roots, the pachydermic stomping in the face . . .

This monstrous impact tattoo now threatens to forever replace

The flora with tumbleweed and tundra of Selective Austerity

For if one were wealthy, politically active magnate, the 1% of the citizenry

You never are subjected to that sort of travesty

In fact you were given more power by Citizens United Judiciary

To fundamentally, forever corrupt, attempt to silence the potency of the gentry . . .

If they ever were to awake from their decades old hegemonic dream of apathy

They'd find as they wipe the sleep from their eyes and Occupy the Country

That an assault on long basic liberties and rights started earnestly

As soon as they were sworn in, again in that Month of January . . .

Extremely sophisticated, seemingly algorithmically driven virality

That unbelievably turns those with the same desperate lot into a cacophony

Of vituperative middle class self-rending and shredding . . . popularity

Of these duped agents or the Taxed Enough Already

Soaring to heights of incredulity; the Old Wise Patriots now lament openly

Just how far the Shroud of the Dark Side has fallen . . .

Luke finally starts to have Force Foresight, realizes how grey his hair has gotten . . .

And tries to appeal once more to what we now know is no longer Human . . .

These creatures no longer see people as humans . . . if them and their ideology isn't 'One'.

And he and the Jedi Council would fail in that great mission . . .

The conversion to something of a Force-Drunk Orc is at Completion . . .

They now posses a rowdy, controlling minority in the Senate . . . corruption

Now has made a strange crying Orange Sith the ruler of the lower Legion

Farcically we remember the outsize Faux Mjolnir he used to bludgeon

The lecterns during the ceremonial  passing of the baton . . .

Now the campaign has begun . . . to remove One . . .

Many will bear the brunt of the engrossed, misguided destruction of such exertions . . .

". . . You are Not WITH US . . . Then You ARE AGAINST US!"

Now let the Sacking of Coruscant begin aka The Constitution . . . The Nation

Mass Media facilitated Deception, false equivalences, hypocrisy, reckless abandon . . .

They pursue more power, control of that whose freedom they used to extoll . . . 

Creation of an army of Long Hated bogeymen and straw men; a fetid legion

Which are crudely stapled to Luke like a Pinata.  The Reason?

For Them and Force Sensitives susceptible to The Dark Side of the Force to Beat on . . .

To hopefully invoke revulsion in those whom he has sacrificed so much on . . .

And Drive the masses, blinded by exacerbated suffering, the delusion 

leads them into the maw of those who only see them fit for consumption

Fit for wholesale slaughter, like heads of cattle, livestock . . . apathetic exploitation . . .

"The Public say they want This and That . . . but we Sith WILL have dominion!"

"Repetition is the key, which will pass unedited, for we OWN the Media Ones!"

"What WE want and wish You to believe will supplant all Common Sense and Reason!"

"Our Carefully insipid 'constructions' will become diamond-hard by The Election . . .!"

And most importantly the 'Death of Compromise' is THE Religion.

A Fatwa of Ostracism and Political Death awaits those with independent, resilient notions

Of real patriotism, true empathy for their various constituencies . . .

So denial of any and all possible signs of progress, the overarching priority!

Luke must be denied anymore appearances of gallantry, 

He must not look like he's fighting for the Republic, for the gentry

The Truth be damned . . . What They want MUST be!

Even 'Emperor Palpatine', newly reincarnated with a New Heart has returned to rally . . . 

Become a symbol; their latest puppet worships him dearly

'Malgus' . . . a Sith long 'gifted' with the Force Lightning of Sociopathy . . .

Has likened himself as Count Dooku, exhibiting the cloak of legitimacy,

Relentlessly beating away at the pains of the citizenry

"Vote for Me!  I'm not He . . .!"

"No details yet?  Don't worry, trust me! "

"This will be fleshed-out when you award me the Presidency!"

"You are not WITH US . . . You ARE AGAINST US!!

So begins the great Jedi purge of Sanity, True Patriotism  . . . Empathy

For the commonality of what we all suffer through daily

This Depression binds all to a dismal future in perpetuity

Not even the Dark Side can see this future, this inevitability . . .

But short term focus, strictly partisan concern inform the Sith Methodology!

Long term viability of the country is worthless for such exertions of

craven espionage and treasonous puppetry . . .

Sabers are ablaze, the whir of their clashing echoes from the Chattering Class,

The Media Punditry align themselves with Right or Left, Elephant and Ass

The ultimate winner of this contest still has not yet come to pass . . . 

The coming battle will be unprecedentedly nasty; the decorum crass . . .

One would have hoped the Jedi would heeded earlier the rumbling of the Wise . . . 

'Luke' and 'Malgus' will battle to an almost standstill, visceral vice

Lies from the Sith will flow like Noah's Nemesis of a Tide, with thrice

The destructive power and reach;  the swill of intellectual defecation has been 'Priced'

Like all things nowadays, access and permission to dupe You are no longer a roll of the dice

It's the hottest business investment and commodity of any size

That they'd like to buy for those who consider the common man's exploitation a prize

Luke must shun former, timid, bi-partisan notes, disrupt the pattern where the crow flies

And dive-bombs him with White, hate-filled uric acid excretions that attract media flies

To criticize, in order to preserve the Chosen Narrative on which their business model flies.

One must unplug now and again lest some part of you dies . . .

But you must pay attention and remember it all . . . T'would be wise . . . Because

The victor of this contest probably signals the loser's party's longterm political demise . . .

And You have the chance to exert great force on the one who would claim the prize . . .

All herald and fear the as yet unfinished resurgence of the Sith . . . America open your eyes

And witness . . . the Death of Compromise . . .!

"If You aren't with us . . . YOU'RE AGAINST US!"

"You aren't WITH US? . . . THEN YOU'RE AGAINST US!!"

Those of us still Gifted with Force Sight . . . will do What We Must . . .!