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A Liberal Dose Conserves Most
President Barrack Obama!!!!
President Barrack Obama!!
Sounds so good I wanna say it twice!
Sounds so nice,
he’s gonna make things right and change things,
he’s gonna change things!
Us liberals love to change things!
To switch stuff around...
By definition-
progressives want progress,
society is a train that seems stuck at the station,
we gotta get it on down the track and round the mountain,
cause there’s so much shit wrong I couldn’t even begin to list it
We need to fix it.
That’s why we elected our man!
‘Cause “Yes We Can! Yes We Can!”
Now,
I’ve got 3D glasses,
so let’s do the other side,
and just for fun,
let’s do it backwards,
“No We Can’t! No We Can’t!”
That’s not a winning slogan,
but still,
we must be cautious when trying to fix it,
cause there’s so many things that could go wrong I couldn’t even begin to list it.
Maybe the train is broken and needs repair,
but at least it usually functions,
how would you like to be zooming around in a train with no brakes?
A train some progressive economist strapped a nuclear rocket engine into
so it can go a thousand miles an hour!?! Do you really want to be trapped in a flying rocket train smashing into a mountain?
How quickly you forget your history,
when every corrupt government in existence was founded by revolution,
true conservatives council caution when advancing the story of society.
Because by definition,
conservatives want to conserve things,
to save what they can of what we have,
change can be dangerous,
but liberals insist on always changing things!
And I understand both points of view,
I think most of us do.
Most everybody I know,
republican or democrat,
is progressive about social issues and conservative about economic ones.
Now maybe my sample set is skewed cause I’m a poet and live in the hippieville ghetto,
but I do believe that most people are kind hearted,
and that we all want peace and prosperity for our country.
Conservatives want the existing system to thrive,
while progressives want to shift the system around,
we need them both for balance.
(Although those definitions, it seems like conservatives should be pro-environment,
they could hold a convention of conservative conservationists,
while progressives should be pro-death to planet Earth,
‘cause that would be a really liberal idea.
But anyways...)
I’m a progressive because I’m not afraid of the future,
I think we can change things for the better,
like a little train chugging up a mountain,
“I think we can, I think we can.”
That’s why we elected our man,
he’s gonna change things
he’s gonna make it right and change things,
sounds so nice,
sounds so good I wanna say it thrice,
President Barrack Obama.