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I'm a Conservative

Hear Me Shout!

By Chris ZPublished 10 months ago • Updated 6 months ago • 1 min read
"I'm a Conservative, intrinsically opposed to live & let live."

Constitutionality,

like crime, and kids,

like COPS, and the military 

like impeachment, pardons 

war powers, and pederasty,

become our party's top priority

as culture war cudgels

let loose upon a moral moiety.

Religious freedom never meant,

"choose between a Baptist,

or a Methodist bent."

I'm free to choose none

or any one of the three.

I'm free to send you packing

when you try to force yours on me.

I'm a Conservative,

Whoa, I'm a Conservative

Intrinsically opposed

to live and let live.

I'm a Conservative.

Yeah, I'm a Conservative

I pack a great big gun

To compensate for my little one.

You the white Anglo-Saxon

patrician-class progeny.

The world yours by virtue

of Manifest Destiny.

Taught to see liberty 

as a limited commodity

as a duel to the death

in a zero-sum rivalry.

I'm a Conservative,

Whoa, I'm a Conservative

Intrinsically opposed

to live and let live;

But, I'm a Conservative,

Uncultured, unworldly,

and not the least bit ashamed to be

Whoa, I'm a Conservative;

Livin' country miles short of

high school-level literacy.

Remember that godsent prophet Q,

That "prophet" whose prophecies

never came true?

Seems like just last week

you led a lemming line

sworn to defend some

now abandoned incline.

From no-go zones in Birmingham;

To that masher in the lady's room

is really a man!

Jade Helm, Pizzagate,

Birthers, and Benghazi:

You went balls to the walls

on every conspiracy!

But, to a draft-dodging, debt-welching

racist slumlord parody

who lies to his base pathologically

you bend the knee,

and pledge your fealty.

Whoa, I'm a Conservative

Yo, I'm a Conservative

Intrinsically opposed

To live and let live.

I'm a Conservative…

Uncultured, unworldly.

And not the least bit 'shamed to be.

I'm a Conservative…

Hear me shout!

Louder when I don't know

what I'm shouting about!

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About the Creator

Chris Z

My opinion column garnered more reader responses than any other contributor in the paper's 40-year run. As a stand-up comic, I performed in 16 countries & 26 states. I've written 2 one-man shows, umpteen poems, songs, essays & chronologies.

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Written by Chris Z