VERSION
FRANCOPHONE OTHER POEMS
SUMMARY OF LEARNERS INTRO & VOCAB
A conservative can be:
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a bully |
just plain mean |
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money-grubbing |
penny wise and pound foolish |
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psychopathic |
or sociopathic |
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a malignant
narcissist |
violently allergic to empathy |
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Self-entitled self-pitying |
self-aggrandizing full of self. |
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A more or
less closet racist,
sexist, ageist, homophobe. |
Libertarian for self, totalitarian for others. |
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small-town,
small-mind |
chauvinistic and provincial |
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A zero-sum
dead-ender, |
a starver of the children of others |
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Bible-thumping
(Christian) Torah-thumping
(Jewish) Qran-thumping
(Muslim) Gita-thumping
(Hindu) Ego-thumping
(Atheist) |
With a brain all reptile, no mammal; all limbic system, no frontal lobe; all threat management, no ethics; all me and mine versus them, no us; all take and no give back. |
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A
saber-rattling, draft-deferred chicken-hawk: |
“Invade first, occupy forever, reflect
never.” |
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An oath
violator with his hand on his heart, |
two-faced hypocrite. |
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A National-Capitalist,
-Communist, -Socialist |
wrecker of democracy and the Constitution. |
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deaf to the
popular will |
deathly afraid of it |
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a criminal
judge |
an organized crime legislator |
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A pro-gun
everywhere advocate |
who forbids guns at his conventions |
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An
embezzler posing as a free speech advocate |
on the take to the highest bidder, or
lowest. |
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A dunce
and/or criminal, regardless, |
ignorant of history and eager to repeat its
mistakes. |
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Daring
where angels would fear to tread, |
scared where a baby would feel safe. |
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a family
values sex offender |
a family values orphan/widow maker |
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counter-factual |
counter-rational |
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anti-science |
a deadly earnest fantasist |
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millenarian
fruitcake |
end-times planet wrecker |
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anti-nature |
anti-nurture |
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never in
the wrong |
Ever overeager to blame others |
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An actor
playing the role of President, a senile
actor playing the role of President. |
A village idiot playing the role of
President, a village idiot playing the role twice. |
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Anyone who
serially elects them and seeks a new candidate equivalent or worse. |
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Against our
government, for my big government office
seeker incompetent at governance; |
unwilling to learn it correctly, but more than willing to do it wrong. |
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A
functionary/beneficiary of gov’t who hates it. |
“Good governance is the Democratic Republic
of the Congo―no
taxes, no roads, no rule of law.” |
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Who
couldn’t find the DRC on a labeled map. |
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War-loving
and grudging of peace, |
a traitorous “patriot.” |
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An elitist
of no personal merit |
self-promoted to his level of incompetence. |
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self-sedated
against lethal threats (climate change) |
hypervigilant of non-existent ones
(humanism) |
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A cultural
and international illiterate |
lifting ignorance to the level of genius. |
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Who
couldn’t find the DRC on a labeled map. |
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A
philosophical black hole |
skeptical of the truth and lapping up lies. |
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Intolerant
of good, ambitious to do harm, |
open to evils useful or otherwise. |
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Pro-death
penalty, pro-life: |
mass-producing victims to be sacrificed. |
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Waste &
fraud promoting, |
self-entitled to profiteer from others'
misery. |
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etc. |
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but very
rarely "great" |
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There may
be a few sterling exceptions among conservatives |
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But never
in majority and almost never in control. |
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