Here’s the thing
About the Red Scare:
Well, of course!
Everything in this one
Is a lie.
In the aftermath
Of WWII,
Berlin
Became split
By a wall.
It was literally
The coldest city,
Where Americans
And Russians
Straddled,
Where the crux
Of the postwar world
Existed
In its purest form.
The Red Scare
Existed
Because communists
Existed
In the United States,
And even the communists
In the United States
Started realizing
That communists
In the United States
Were probably,
To characterize them
With a single word,
Crazy.
Then the culture
Started telling us
They were heroes.
Even when they denied
What they were
Or had been
But were clearly there
Because of it
To have them
Attempt to stem the tide
Was called a sin.
The Berlin Wall
Came down,
And Germany
Officially reentered
The modern world,
And Russians
Stopped being Soviet.
But communists
Still got to be heroes.
I can’t explain it.
Freedom from tyranny
Is the ability to comprehend
That reactionary impulses
Should not define
Anyone’s idea
Of mainstream thought.
Freedom is freedom
When it counts everyone.
When it trickles upward,
That is the death of freedom,
When it stifles the individual
While claiming
To liberate them,
When they cannot speak
When they think they are a martyr
Because they cannot speak,
When the wheels of society
Are falling by the wayside
For what they call the greater good,
When power centralizes
And grows paranoid,
Seeking and eliminating
The enemies within
And refuse debate,
That is not freedom.
Freedom is knowing
The difference.
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