I'm a Conservative
Hear Me Shout!

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!
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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