Lost in ideology
Hypothetical hypocrisy
Holding your moral flag high
In the face of righteous indignation

To justify misdeeds in the name of societal solidity
As calls for genocide are framed as righteous
But, only if it’s one sided

We are left to ponder the value of a people
Or a thought that can so easily justify
Bloodshed in the name of a religion
While discounting an entire people

Terror from on high or terror in the streets
What constitutes morality if you can use those you represent as a ward against retribution?  

If life means so little how can you claim
A moral superiority?
To create the very bloodshed of the ones
You claim to defend, are you the really protecting anyone at all?

Accept your own agenda? 
People reduced to cattle to be herded, used
Their lives nothing but expendable for political gains.
Tell me how your cause is just as you murder, hurt, rape and maim

You attack , then blame victims for your actions
Narcissistic to the extreme
As you gaslight the world to agree
That your barbarism was justified

As you demonize those you brutalized
Toxic in the extreme
Like an abusive spouse shouting to justify your means
You only show the true darkness in your souls

As the victims fight back you can’t
Hold your moral high ground
And trumpet your righteous actions
When first it was their blood you spilled on the ground.

An Original Poem by H.R. Beebe