Coup

You can watch it all unfolding as if it were in slow motion
Like in the times of my grandparents across the ocean
Then as now the stage was set by the party that preceded
Who had the chance to right the ship before they just conceded
Fearing socialism more than they fear what we now face
A kleptocratic billionaire shilling for the Master Race
Surrounded by sycophants dismantling machines
To rig the elections in this age of quarantine

From where we stand now, what do we do
As we’re living through this prelude to a coup

You can watch it all unfolding right in the light of day
As one by one our rights are taken away
As in so many counties all across this nation
You’ll be lucky if you find more than one polling station
With voting rights lost seven years back
Now they’ve got the chance, they go in for the attack
Purging the rolls just in time
To turn this catastrophe into a crime

You can watch it all unfolding, the fuel burning on the ground
That has been poured at each opportunity found
With white supremacists driving through the city each week
Finding the trouble they come to seek
With pickup trucks and loaded guns, is this Portland or Mosul
Streets filling up with totalitarian tools
Being hailed on high, told to shoot down dead
Antifa terrorists – that’s indeed just what he said