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-Great Cultural Revolution
What Happens When the Good Are Silent?
2022-12-14
[TheOrganizedPrepper] What happens when the good are silent
As the wicked run about
When the good just hold their tongues
While the evil scream and shout?

When the good are silent
As theft becomes the norm
Should they be surprised
When culture takes new form?

"I just don’t understand"
"Where it all went wrong"
"My country has gone crazy"
It’s the same old song

What would’ve happened
Had there been more Scholls?
Exposing all the lies
Showing Naziism’s holes?

Or if there’d been more Schindler’s
Risking all to save a few
Putting good above their fear
To save the beaten Jew
But, no, the good were silent
To save their skins they hid
As another Nazi soldier
Cremated another kid
What if Solzhenitsyn
Had refused to testify
About the horrors he had seen
When he thought that he may die?

Would more have fallen for
The soviet way of life
Where "You belong to the state!"
"Fight, and taste the knife!"
So now, let’s ask the question
One each man must ask
It’ll show your heart
And remove that sterile mask

What kind of man do you
Want your family to
Remember you as being
"We few, we happy few?"
Or would you have a coward
Sitting in their midst
Eating at their table
With a heart not more than grist

Is that the heart a wife desires?
The heart you’ve always wanted?
Or is it the slimy excuse
Of a man scared of being hunted?

What happens when the good sit down?
"It’d be best to just lay low!"
"It’s safe inside my home!"
’Tis a heavy blow

Against these little children
The weak who need the strong.
And they were left defenseless
Is this right or wrong?
Do the good stand by and watch
As a kidnapper plies his trade
Is this the purpose of a fist
Is this why it was made?

"I can’t jump into that fray!"
"That man might hurt me too!"
"I’ll just wish it was over."
We few, we happy few...
And so, another kid is hurt
But hey, you’re still alright!
With your hands stuck in your pockets
What’s on TV tonight?

Perhaps this is the way
That nations fin’ly fall?
Evil just runs loose
And the good? Where are they all?
Well, they’re all at home
It’s comfortable in there
A bowl of popcorn in the lap
While in the easy chair

The people they should love
Are falling left and right
But they are men no longer
Too castrated to fight

They’re scared of speaking up
And what just that may mean
Not aware you must pick a side
Neutrality? What do you mean?

What happens to the good men
When fear binds up their tongues
Evil will take over. Then
Screams escape their lungs

Because that’s the way it starts
The wolves feed on the weak
And when the lambs are missing
The pattern’s not unique
Then the wolves move up the flock
Attacking all that’s left
The comfort is then gone
And all are left bereft
So, where can the good be found
If they never make a sound?
Well, if silent for too long
They’re six feet in the ground.

Because they were silent for too long
Taking chains, when they were free
This has all happened before
"There was no one left for me."

A lion scours the earth
Seeking to devour
And when the knights are silent
Then evil flaunts its power
And as the silent good men stand
Back to watch the innocent fall
The question must be raised
Were they ever good at all?
Posted by:The Walking Unvaxed

#10  Silence is good as long as you are stalking an enemy.
Posted by: Super Hose   2022-12-14 19:29  

#9  What happens when the Good are SILENCED. This is the issue.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2022-12-14 15:40  

#8  They buy crypto?
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-12-14 13:21  

#7  Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity. __WBY
Posted by: Mercutio   2022-12-14 10:11  

#6  The trick is to be not all good.
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-12-14 08:41  

#5  ...this.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-12-14 08:40  

#4  The Good have been silent too long and have now lost.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735   2022-12-14 08:26  

#3  Dominion Voting machines become institutionalized ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-12-14 07:09  

#2  This is what happens.
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-12-14 06:56  

#1  Umm.
The good eat shit and die?
Posted by: Xyz   2022-12-14 00:08  

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