A Litany Against Jindal and the Republican
Right:
Ranting against Sins of Omission and Commission
in an Alphabetic Meditation
We pray at the altar of
humanity and goodness for the remission of the evils of current politicians.
Let them be cleansed of their
calumnies and viciousness.
Deliver us from evil
promulgated by Jindal and the Religious and Political Right.
For they:
Abolish the American Dream,
Abnegate abortion,
Abuse the absurdities of
society,
Accept advocates of the
apocalypse,
Afflict the afflicted,
Alter the assessments,
Argue against atheism,
Assassinate the act of
humanists,
Batter benefits of work and
saving,
Belittle the beneficent,
Benefit the billionaires,
Best businesses against the
person,
Bruit the building of
monopolistic corporations,
Bugger the bureaucracy,
Build belated tissues of lies
to bugger the benighted,
Buy the broadband and televised
advertainment industries,
Capture the cravings of the
fearful with raving platitudes,
Celebrate the super-rich,
Collapse clear thinking,
Comfort the comfortable,
Control access to funds for
disasters,
Cook the climate,
Crave the congratulations of
their cronies,
Create creationism as if it
were scientific theory,
Crush the cravings of
children,
Curry favors with the
crapulous,
Demonize democracy,
Demoralize the military,
Deplete the national
defenses,
Destroy those who deviate,
Divide the destitute,
Dump in the destinations of
beauty,
Eliminate evolution,
Encapsulate enmity among every class,
Envision excesses of power,
except their own,
Eviscerate education,
Falsify their functions,
Fictionalize uncomfortable
facts,
Forgive the fatuous,
Fractionalize the functions
of government,
Fractionate the female,
Grate the messages of the newer
generations,
Gratify their fatuous
gratuities,
Grow the glutinous,
Grieve the generous,
Harbor the hateful,
Hate those who help others,
Heal the haters to hate more,
Hear only the appeals of the
hyper-religious fanatics,
Help the hypocrites,
Heathenize the Christian,
Hide their healing of the
health-care profiteers,
Immoralize Islam,
Imprison the nonviolent,
Incarcerate the illiterate
and the insane,
Incriminate all opposition,
Indict the ingenuous,
Insure the insurance
companies,
Junk the judicial system,
Keep current messages about
change quiet,
Kick counter cultures to the
curb,
Kill the Christian message
and replace it with greed,
Kindle crises around every
corner,
Kiss corrupt church officials
while getting support from pulpits,
Knot politics into knots,
Know their truths beyond all
doubt while thumping abandoned biblical chapters,
Leave the processes of logic,
Lecture against love,
Limit legitimate claims while
legislating on fantasies,
Loath the lower classes,
Lose the voice of reason,
Lower the legal bars to
imprison more poor,
Massacre those opposed to
meanness,
Maximize monetary business profit
in excess,
Mention morality while
practicing immorality,
Mess with the marginalized,
Minimize all mental processes,
Mouth the monuments of
mendacity,
Nationalize prescription
care,
Negate the new in favor of
old solutions
Neglect needs of the national
good,
Neuter national
exceptionalism,
Nix the needs of the nation,
Nullify new negotiations
towards progress,
Nuzzle the nabobs of the
military-industrial complex,
Obfuscate their obscure
desires for power and control,
Open the way for oppressive
theocracy,
Organize openings for
billionaires to control politics and education,
Pander to the plutocrats,
Perpetuate poverty for their
purposes,
Plunder the poor,
Premeditate all pregnancies,
Pontificate puritanism while living luxuriously
Promulgate the perversely
parsimonious,
Propagandize against the
public good,
Quantify the unquantifiable,
Quarrel with the quotidian,
Quash opponents with
quarreling,
Question the morals of the
others,
Quit the realms of careful
compromise,
Reactivate regression to the 1950s model of society,
Re-compensate religions,
Redefine rape,
Redouble racism,
Regress the right of the
people,
Regurgitate regulations of
righteousness,
Reject the realities of
marriage,
Religify education to the
detriment of all,
Remove regulations protecting
health and the poor,
Re-segregate the races in
schools and communities,
Run from the caring for all
in our republic,
Rupture the reputable who
fight against them,
Sanctify the insincere,
Shoot the stragglers,
Simplify all situations to
black and white,
Slander their own socialist
roots,
Strap the students,
Starve services,
Strip science from schools
and universities,
Stultify the sane,
Tax the tender,
Terrify teachers with
untested tests,
Tergiversate their own transgressions,
Thump for trashing the
environment,
Transfer tax funds to
religions,
Treat technology as the answer,
Triple taxes on necessities,
Turn truths into falsehoods,
Ululate their utterances,
Undo the support for the
unfortunate,
Uniform the underprivileged,
Upgrade the unknown and the
unknowing,
Vent vitriol against the
immigrant,
Violate the vital services to
the poor,
Vitiate the vital protections
of education,
Warm the wealthy,
Weaken the weak,
Wear out the woe-begotten,
eXacerbate the educated,
eXcise the enfranchised,
eXercise the enabled,
eXfolliate the forests,
Yield to the bullies,
Zip their mouths to the
uttering of truths,
Thus, we pray this day in
reaction to the sainthood of Ronaldus Reaganus Republicanus and his
tergiversating apprentices,
Demanding attrition and
removal of Jindal and the religious right from power,
With faith in the democratic
values of our republic.
