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Make America Fake Again

If Hillary got indicted by that right-wing FBI And good ole Bernie’s heart had him lying down to die If all the other candidates were thrown into a ring, And killed each other off with straw-man weaponry If that thing called ‘foreign policy’ was really just a game And experience was more about reality tv show fame If Muslims were all evil and the refugees a scam Or the terrorist threats a joke and the Arab Spring a sham If Americans were morons, duped on marijuana dreams Or Mexicans were rapists, building our walls to stop their schemes If the poor could be delivered by a real estate tycoon And illegals could be rounded up, like animals two by two If truth were merely relative and anything could fly And insults were called speeches—substantive, not denied If the moral compass of the land were broken right in two And intellectuals deported for revealing what is true If the world became a fantasy shrouded in lies and sin,