Talking About Our Revolution When Everyone is Distracted
Politics
HOW can I, that girl standing there,
My attention fix
On Roman or on Russian
Or on Spanish politics?
Yet here's a travelled man that knows
What he talks about,
And there's a politician
That has read and thought,
And maybe what they say is true
Of war and war's alarms,
But O that I were young again
And held her in my arms!
My attention fix
On Roman or on Russian
Or on Spanish politics?
Yet here's a travelled man that knows
What he talks about,
And there's a politician
That has read and thought,
And maybe what they say is true
Of war and war's alarms,
But O that I were young again
And held her in my arms!
William Butler Yeats
The young people actually get it. They've been paying attention and they're not scared easily by the old name-calling. It's the older folks among us who are acting all WB Yeats like and mooning over the pretty girl, the illusion of an America that no longer exists, with a perfect complexion and a Pepsodent smile that everyone gets along with.
Bernie is bringing it, what they say of war's alarms. Or in the words of Tracy Chapman, you better run, run, run run run. We might get a decent health care service like they have in Canada out of it.
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