Labi Siffre - Into The Light

When Money’s Tight, Despots Sound Right

Brexit

Trump

Bojo

Bolsonaro

Duterte

Farage

Orban

QAnon

Stupid

sparked by the financial crash

2008

not new

1929/1933

the Great Depression see

then

"Hello Adolf, give us a scapegoat!"

When money’s tight

Despots sound right

They never are

And we should stop voting for them

 

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The Arrangement

When money's tight
times hard
Voters are encouraged to pick
who to blame
From a list
Of scapegoats
Foreigners most popular but
Folk of a different hue
sexuality
religion
disabilities
Women
“other"
will do
the majority usually fall for it
din’t U
no worry
U not expected to confess

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