Socialist Sonnet No. 207: Shouting Down (2025)

  From the Socialism or Your Money Back blog

Shouting Down

 

Clamorous cacophony of discontent:

Public outrage finds some collective voice,

Finds its feet, finds its demagogic choice

Of blame bearer, but then does not relent

To draw breath, reflect, perhaps consider

How another view might well be taken,

One more profound, one that might awaken

Perception, challenge the highest bidder

For visceral thought to think again

About those parties who’re in contention,

Laying claim to popular dissension,

Offering their quack final solution.

While anger and shouting are in season,

They’re muting the measured voice of reason.

 D. A.