The People's Proclamation

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The People’s Proclamation

“Until justice is blind, until education is unaware

of race, emancipation will be a proclamation, but

not a fact.”--Lyndon B. Johnson.

How can the state of the Now

shift so swiftly? Yesterday ten pipe bombs were

delivered to many of Trump’s critics; making

it damn hard to remember that

Abraham Lincoln was a Republican.

During the tragic Civil War

the Democrats constituted most

of the Confederacy--such irony

makes it difficult to acknowledge that

Abraham Lincoln was a Republican.

During my own blink of God’s eye,

FDR/Truman--JFK/Johnson--Carter and

Clinton and Obama have been

my champions, while Eisenhower/Nixon--

Reagan--both Bush’s--and now Trump

have been the objects of my rancor, disdain,

rage and disappointment, making it hard

to credit Abraham Lincoln as a Republican.

The last couple of migraine Trumpian nightmare

years, we find the Republicans in bed with

billionaires, despots, dictators, kings, the K.K.K.

and the American Nazis. None of this is balanced

out by the historical fact that

Abraham Lincoln was a Republican.

As Trump continues to trample on 

Civil Rights, immigration, our former allies,

women, the free press, and the justice system,

his hypnotized hordes of followers forgive 

him his myriad of follies and perniciously continue

to persecute those on his enemies list,

all the while reminding us that after all

Abraham Lincoln was a Republican.

Glenn Buttkus

Posted over at dVerse Poets Pub