[Critique Group 2] Leonard's comments on Brad's piece for oct.

[tuchyner5 at aol.com]

Please accept my appologies for the previous e mail. I got my computers mixed up.

Brad

This is perfect. In its expression. 

It clearly describes what Trump andhis ilk are creating in order to serve their own need for power. 

Though, I believe it is still ableto discern truth from lies most of the time. 

It becomes particularly difficultwhen lies are mixed with truth. 

The disturbing thing is that so manyare willing to put principle below political  gain. Hypocracy  is perhaps worse than the lies.   

Yet we still are  able to see the flicker of truth, andappreciate it. 

We just can’t grasp it. 

I’m not too sure that the decentinto this state we find ourselves in was so gradual. 

It was always there. 

That’s why we have to be sovigilent.  

I think it will always be so. 

I just hope we can stop this trendin its tracks. 

But it will be waiting to get just alittle encouragement to threaten us again.

 

 

 

The Worst of it All was the Lies

C By Brad Corallo

Word count 179

 

During a long gradual downwardretreat,

truth transformed into Mercury.

Allusive and almost 

Impossible to catch or clasp. 

Yet, still beautiful in its fluid,silvery perfection.

Hypocrisy, dissembling, alternativefacts and outright lies

all are grist for the worldpropaganda mill. 

 

I find myself growing weary 

as the ground beneath my feet

disappears once again.

The old representations of suretyare now

at best pale and without conviction.

 

An old ragged beggar

throws himself on the altar's stepsand desperately entreats 

"Someone, please tell me, whatcan I believe in?" 

His only answer is resoundingsilence. 

 

Two looming questions overshadow

all our slowly darkening days:

"what are we becoming?"

"what have we alreadybecome?" 

 

Though the answers may not bepretty, 

the spin doctors will perform theirinsidious surgery.

Will we have the slightest clue then

if and where truth and hope,

still abide? 

 

The Worst of it All was the Lies

 

 

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