THE CULT OF THE AMERICAN ASSHOLE, A LIST

1

The CEOs of corporations;

The bankers who’ve sucked people dry;

The politicians of all nations

Who promise peace then shout “banzai;”

The mega-church broadcasting preachers

Who rail at numb nuts in their bleachers

And claim the Bible is a book

Shows Darwin needs another look;

The president whose one ambition

Is rendering health care for all

And sends us home with Tylenol,

And says it’s just an intermission;

Reporters from the mainstream pressed

To write what publishers want stressed;

2

The companies who pump pollution

Into our water and our air,

Then just before their prosecution

Endow a “scientific” chair

That proves these claims impossibilities,

Just theories not infallibilities;

And so a court finds it’s their right

To drill and pump to their delight.

More deaths, they say, are caused by swilling

The spirits that make people drink;

Or suicides from Facebook’s ink

Than have been caused by oil drilling.

Therefore, drill on we won’t abide

What’s far from proven cut and dried;

3

The patriots who hang Old Glory

Outside their trailers make me gag . . .

These good ole boys don’t know the story

Why other people burn their rag:

So why not start with Indian killing

That movies made so awfully thrilling;

What slavers did so long ago;

And, recently, the South’s Jim Crow;

And worse, illegal immigration:

In which they think they’ll lose their jobs

(It’s foisted on them by nabobs)

And stop this country’s jubilation

At being white.  Well that’s not bad

Since race has driven us quite mad.

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