“Just Doing My Job” by Brian37 (Now Jackie Leigh) (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META AND @brianrrs37 on Twitter/X)

The rooms with deadly toxic fumes
Are garnished, furnished, nourished
By the gardener with seeds of hate

In dead soil, the foliage now apathy
Blooming in colorless conformity
The weeds claim rights of superiority

The aggregates iron fisted authority
Patriotism’s oath is now blind loyalty
A spiral into fascism’s cruel insanity

It is 1939 WW2 Germany
It is Saddam taking stage
Purging his ranks the page

Migrants in swampy cage
Transgender the target of rage
We’ve seen this scapegoating before

This garden is nothing but thorns
Past history of this still warns
“I was just doing my job”

Slithering like a snake
The excuses you will make
For the upcoming funeral wake

Compassion for others you forsake
The grifter is on the take
Your cult will seal our fate

The time to stand is now
To fascists we never bow
Get out of the felon’s slough.
(end)

You will have no excuses when the genocide starts. Be it of migrants or transgender. It will not stop at deportations, or stop at keeping trans out of sports and bathrooms. We know the authoritarian playbook has always used scapegoating and vilification to convince people to give them power. What the followers do not see, is that their own rights are just as much lambs to the slaughter as those they hate themselves. Authoritarians do not care about anyone but keeping power.