Meet Me on the Baseline

 

I know you want your team to win
in this contentious

political combat cauldron..

So I always expect 

major creative spin
to frame the issues your way..

And blaming the other side..
for everything bad
is standard procedure today
but can we not at least agree
on basic standards
of human decency
that can still unite us?

Can not we 
as part of this shared humanity

mutually condemn those cretins 
on either side
who violate even the minimum
baseline of morality?

There still has to be a line
of appropriate behavior
that good people never cross..

But if we continue 

choosing to value politics
over doing the right thing

then we as a species
are indeed forever lost