This is a song I wrote with Steve Bates back in late 2004/early 2005 in response to the re-election of George W. Bush in the wake of his failed war in Iraq. We were shocked and felt we didn’t know our country. I feel that more so this morning than I have at any time in my lifetime.
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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
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Hank Kalet 
Amen to your comments and sentiments. I'm shocked that a Trump has become our president. We seem to have an oversupply of right wing nuts in this country and a dearth of progressives.