BAMBOOZLED REPUBLICANS

Middle class Republicans are out in the cold.

The art of bamboozle has them in its hold.

Middle class Republicans are the nation's greatest suckers.

Confused and dispossessed they ignore Democratic benefactors.

Their thinking is faulty they can't think clearly.

They betray democracy which so many paid for dearly.

The Republican middle class is not capable of thinking.

They refuse to believe that their middle class is shrinking.

Reagan/Bush racketeers, the Republicans staunchly represent.

Republicans' war on the American middle class is clearly evident.

Many Americans have lost their dreams, homes, savings and jobs.

What they have left the Republican Reagan/Bush rat pack robs.

Middle class Republicans will be blind loyalists to their very end.

Headed to history's dung heap they will not dogmatically bend.

The American middle class is the ruling class' pawn.

The Reagan/Bush racketeers plan to make the middle class gone.

With the American middle class facing extinction.

Their dreams, wealth, homes and jobs vanishing like an illusion.

All Americans must join together to take the country back.

From the greed and corruption of the Republican Reagan/Bush rat pack.

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One of the saddest lessons of history is this:

If we've been bamboozled long enough,

we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle.

We're no longer interested in finding out the truth.

The bamboozle has captured us.

It is simply too painful to acknowledge

-- even to ourselves --

that we've been so credulous [gullible].

Finding the occasional straw of truth awash

in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle

requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication and courage.

But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought,

we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us

-- and we risk becoming a nation of suckers,

up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along. (emphasis added)

-- CARL SAGAN, "The Fine Art of Baloney Detection," Parade, February 1, 1987