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Hidden Truth

By Ron Faust

What bothers me more:

The white Christian nationalists

Or the legalists who play “gotcha” politics

In Trump you get a combo distaste

For followers who are unabashedly loyal

No matter what is counterproductive

They will be racist, superior and exceptional

Driven by a patriotic zeal for America first

Those who have a poor assessment of themselves

May like to bolster their image by untruths

Thinking themselves higher than they actually are

They will delve on the nonessentials, the trivial

And be unable to discern what is essential

We used to have a saying,

In essentials, unity

In nonessentials, liberty

In all things, charity

Somehow we are missing the third thing

Losing sight of love in all things.

12/11/23 (On occasion when our weapons are too strong to use on enemies. The hidden truth is the inability to critique our nation, and only then we will begin to be closer to the truth.) Ron Faust is a former PeaceWorks Board member. (c) 2023, Ron Faust, Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 International License.

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