Of Political Trends

"It Will"

It will arrive openly, its supporters gleefully inviting it in.

It will claim to be above politics, yet politicize everything.

It will come draped in a flag and cross, but not our flag and not our cross.

It will claim to be against militarism, yet glorify the warrior everywhere.

It will claim to be against the “-isms” of society, but do nothing to remedy them.

It will claim to respect minorities, but only the ones that don’t make noise.

It will claim to represent everyone, but its open disdain of women will be hard to contain.

It will mock the Victorian sensibilities of its parent’s generation, while failing to hide its disgust at anything different from itself.

It will preach community, but only amongst heterosexual males.

It will be contemptuous of culture that it feels is beneath it, while also criticizing those that might aspire towards something higher.

It will be doomed to repeat history, all the while gloating about its superior knowledge of it.

It will call for a return to the past, not ignorant of the past’s failures, but with the belief that those failures are the right way to live.

It will believe that companies always do what’s right, and if they don’t, they’ll be easy to stop.

It will be quick to see conspiracies everywhere, while at the same time infiltrating organizations in order to get its way.

It will warn against the tyranny of government, while itself attempting to force a tyranny of culture.

It will call for a return to American values, but only those that favor itself.

It will be based on certain invisible laws, but reject any scientific discoveries that might contradict it.

It will attack those it considers “stupid,” having no sympathy for those that do not share its opinions. 

It will preach Social Darwinism, while warning of fascism from those it opposes

It will say that might makes right, and that there should be no recourse for the weak.

It will believe that the truth lies halfway between right and wrong.

It will believe that the meek only inherit defeat.

It will believe that good guys finish last because they’re not as good as bad ones.

It will believe that the only path is freedom, a freedom to force your world on everyone else.