{"id":18653,"date":"2019-06-29T18:39:26","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T18:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=18653"},"modified":"2019-07-01T18:40:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T18:40:51","slug":"comfortably-dumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/comfortably-dumb\/","title":{"rendered":"Life & Island Times: Comfortably Dumb"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Screen<\/p>\n

Hello,
\nWhat the hell are you up to?
\nSomeone, please nod if you can hear me
\nIs there anyone home?<\/p>\n

Come on
\nNow
\nYou say we’re feeling down
\nYou can ease our pain
\nGet us on our feet again<\/p>\n

Relax
\nWe need some information first
\nJust the basic facts
\nCan you show us voters where we hurt?<\/p>\n

You offer
\nOpen borders, let them all in
\nWe\u2019re from the government and here to help
\nWith aches and pains you\u2019re all feeling
\nIdentity politics\u2019re not a sin but salvation
\nOne insurance plan for all, no private plans please, for a renewed nation
\nHigher taxes for all, free college and loan forgiveness
\nReparations, abortions and most of all bigger pie portions
\nOh yeah, and free health care for the new illegal alien immigration<\/p>\n

But we still feel no pain that you say needs treating
\nBad times are a distant smoke on the horizon
\nTwo dozen of you are coming at us in waves
\nYour lips move
\nBut we can’t understand what you’re saying<\/p>\n

When you were kids did you have a fever
\nDid your hands feel just like
\nTwo balloons
\nDo you have that feeling once again
\nThat would explain
\nWhy we don\u2019t understand
\nMight explain the jam you\u2019re in<\/p>\n

You, not us, have become comfortably dumb<\/p>\n

O. K.
\nBy recent counts, there\u2019s two dozen of you little pricks
\nWhen will you stop saying \u201cBOHICA,\u201d open wide and say \u201caaaaaaaah!\u2019
\nYou keep saying the nation still feels more than a little sick<\/p>\n

You\u2019re still standing up there
\nAnd believe what you say is working
\nGood
\nThat’ll keep you going through another TV show
\nCome on
\nIt’s time for you all to go<\/p>\n

We have no pain, your messages are not succeeding
\nSocialism\u2019s burnt hulk\u2019s smoking on the horizon
\nYet you still keep coming through in waves
\nYour lips move
\nBut we can’t understand what you’re saying<\/p>\n

When you were kids
\nDid you catch a fleeting glimpse
\nOut of the corners of your eyes<\/p>\n

Or did you turn too late and look but it was gone
\nCan\u2019t put your fingers on it now
\nCommunism\u2019s children are dead and gone
\nThat pipe dream\u2019s time is done
\nYou . . . not us\u2026 have become comfortably dumb<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2019 From My Isle Seat
\nwww.vicsosotra.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello, What the hell are you up to? Someone, please nod if you can hear me Is there anyone home? Come on Now You say we’re feeling down You can ease our pain Get us on our feet again Relax We need some information first Just the basic facts Can you show us voters where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-island-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18653"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18657,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18653\/revisions\/18657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}