Some call me a Meganut, but here’s what I believe:
I believe in freedom with every red, white and blue
Fiber of my being. I believe in the freedom
To celebrate myself at the expense of those not like me.
I believe my freedom requires people to do things my way.
I believe my freedom requires that my religion
Be taught in the public schools and celebrated
In the courts, in municipal offices, and in the public square.
I believe in the sanctity of cellular human life
Over the lives of people who might need some help.
I believe in the freedom of kids to go hungry.
I believe in the freedom to ration health care according
To the ability to pay. I believe in the freedom
To distort my nation’s history so that people
Don’t have to feel bad about slavery, racism,
Genocide or lynchings. I believe people should be free
To say that police violence is always justified.
I believe that seniors with dementia should be free
To freeze to death by the side of a road and not impose
Any public burden for nursing homes and elder care.
I believe that kids should be free to love their country
Uncritically, no matter its transgressions of law or human rights.
I believe my country should be free to impose its will
With economic extortion or the barrel of a gun.
I believe in the freedom to lie whenever it’s convenient.
I believe in the freedom to worship money and property
Over life and simple human need. I believe in the freedom
To pretend to care about anything when really what’s important
Is just me and whatever I value. I believe in the freedom
To think that God only loves money-worshippers.
I believe in the freedom to betray any ally or friend
When it suits my higher purpose, which is myself.
I believe in the freedom to ruin the environment, to pollute
The air and water and to sicken the poor and the weak.
I believe in the freedom to drill, baby, drill.
May God bless the land of the free and the home of whatever works.