Acting hate
It is hard to rouse most people to action
by appeal to their own interest.
It is quite easy to rouse them to act
with bold lies that they have been wronged.
That is why low-information
voters despise the well-informed.
Facts determine true self-interest.
Grievance and rage are the practice of ignorance.
About the Creator
William Alfred
A retired college teacher who has turned to poetry in his old age.
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