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You will find sometimes,
That advocating for your countrymen
necessitates arguing with them.
As some insist that
the legitimacy of their grievance,
is sufficient justification
for those actions they
employ in attaining relief.
For while
their maladies are real,
the attribution of the causes
may be false.
And misdiagnosis
lends to misguided remedies,
with a multitude of side effects.
Desperation for alleviation
instigates
allocation of fault
to those whom
the majority least understand,
and little value.
Prejudice impedes progress.
For misplaced blame
and malfeasance
are an unholy match.
It is precisely at these moments,
when temperate voices
are most critical,
and, most vulnerable.
Dissent is never greeted with applause,
and often
treated with disdain.
Especially by those with despotic desires.
Who extoll the nobility of their motives,
even as they:
denounce their detractors as traitors;
vilify the messengers,
and seek to muzzle them.
Control the message,
manipulate the masses.
And
there are always
obsequious opportunists
who would
scorch the earth
purportedly, to purify it.
Since
it is far easier to
tear down a thing,
than to articulate
what ought to be
constructed in its place.
But once you've ground
your foundation to dust,
whence shall you stand
when stand you must?
That advocating for your countrymen
necessitates arguing with them.
As some insist that
the legitimacy of their grievance,
is sufficient justification
for those actions they
employ in attaining relief.
For while
their maladies are real,
the attribution of the causes
may be false.
And misdiagnosis
lends to misguided remedies,
with a multitude of side effects.
Desperation for alleviation
instigates
allocation of fault
to those whom
the majority least understand,
and little value.
Prejudice impedes progress.
For misplaced blame
and malfeasance
are an unholy match.
It is precisely at these moments,
when temperate voices
are most critical,
and, most vulnerable.
Dissent is never greeted with applause,
and often
treated with disdain.
Especially by those with despotic desires.
Who extoll the nobility of their motives,
even as they:
denounce their detractors as traitors;
vilify the messengers,
and seek to muzzle them.
Control the message,
manipulate the masses.
And
there are always
obsequious opportunists
who would
scorch the earth
purportedly, to purify it.
Since
it is far easier to
tear down a thing,
than to articulate
what ought to be
constructed in its place.
But once you've ground
your foundation to dust,
whence shall you stand
when stand you must?
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