Shall I compare ours to a fascist state?
Our spycraft dwarfs whatever'd come before.
As Orwell wrote in 1948,
we've doomed ourselves to '1984'.
In every pocket, there's a spy device;
each traffic-cam's connected to a screen.
An algorithm tallies who's been nice,
and who's the balky cog in this machine.
The president prefers an autocrat,
who freely lavishes emoluments
pretending not to notice he's so fat,
he seems to have consumed the government.
Enlightenment's bright stab at something new's
corrupted to the plaything of the Few.
The pendulum that ventured so far Right,
in Egypt, Turkiye, Russia, and Brazil,
now gathers steam descending from that height;
it's trending leftward, as it often will.
Defiant of the empire's grasping hand,
Zelenskyy called for bullets, not a ride.
and closing ranks behind one upright man
the West staked out the anti-Fascist side.
In Germany, and Finland, few forget:
imperial ambitions have great costs.
A neighbor who ignores a building threat
might suffer more than just the passing loss.
While global markets slide, implode, and slump,
Canadians were galvanized by Trump.
