I dedicated the lyrics of #FakeFreedomFlag to Edwin Starr, John Lemmon, Pete Seeger, and Bruce Springsteen. The lyrics draw inspiration from their songs, War (What Is It Good For?), Give Peace a Chance. and We shall overcome.
Author lyrics (below) with AI as a muse. Read lyrics at the bottom as you listen.
Music by Suno.
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If inspired, play-share-discuss at rallies and events.
How might we use Humanist-guided-AI-enabled Emancipatory Neo-learning (H.E.N) and Compound Philosophical Questions (CPQs) to develop complexity being-thinking-doing skills for understanding and addressing our complex entanglements of self-inflicted wicked political problems and learn how to emancipate from cult indoctrination?
Take slow thinking time to ponder the ethical purpose, moral meaning, and virtuous implications of CPQs. Disrupt the fast-thinking reactions of emotional reactivity that reinforce the cult indoctrination of propaganda,
Play this song on Zoom calls, divide into triads to discuss the lyrics and these CPQs in two 10-15 minutes generative dialogue sessions, followed by 3 minutes of silence to make comments on an online platform about any new thoughts and insights followed debriefing session in dyads (5 minutes).
These emancipatory learning processes lay the launching pad foundations of generative dialogues needed to build the beloved learning communities and galvanize the network power for deconstructing the deep state of alt-right neo-terrorism that enabled the development of systemic psychopathy over the past 70 years ago. This set the stage to induce the cult trance of Deranged Trump Mass Psychosis that afflicts more that 30% of US population.
How might we emancipate from the reductionist cults of indoctrination to liberate the ethical integrity of servant leadership and restore our democracy?
#FakeFreedomFlag
Verse 1
Imagine democracy rotten to the core, at war against we, the people,
AI escalating inequities with tech-bro billionaires.’
Robbing power from the people to give it to the rich,
Our propaganda war has conned we, the people.
This is our Vietnam War today, not some distant jungle far away.
Imagine a people taught to believe the truth is lies.
Imagine a strongman who declared he alone could fix us,
Who called the press the enemy and bent the courts to his will.
Chorus
Don’t give us the lies!
*(Don’t give us the lies!)*
Just give us the truth!
*(Give us the truth!)*
No more fabricated wars!
The fake freedom flag has got us screwed.
The war on democracy is not over.
(Not over!)
All dressed up in red.
Just give us the truth!
*(Give us the truth!)*
They’re counting on us to play dead.
Verse 2
We filmed the ICE abductions on the streets
And they called the footage a lie.
They fired the inspectors
Who had the nerve to ask them why.
They packed the courts with loyalists,
They purged three hundred thousand from the corps.
They named the peaceful protesters,
Enemies, terrorists and much more.
They called this freedom.just for you.
They said trust us with the power that we’re taking from you
The gaps between haves, have-some and have-nots keeping widening
Our democracy is drowning. Power to the people is just a punchline.
Chorus: call and response
Don’t give us the lies!
*(Don’t give us the lies!)*
Don’t get fooled again.
(Don’t get fooled again!)
Just give us the truth!
*(Give us the truth!)*
Not fog, not spin, not doublespeak!
The Big Beautiful Bill is a war on we, the people.
(War on the people!)
We call it the Big Brutal Bill.
A boot on the neck of we, the people.
(Boot on the neck!)
Bridge
There is a moment in every documentary
where the camera stops following the spokesman
and holds on an ordinary face.
Not a general. Not a president.
Just a person at a kitchen table.
Holding a bill they cannot pay.
Staring at a letter from an agency that no longer exists.
The war on democracy does not always arrive with tanks.
Sometimes it arrives as a budget cut.
Sometimes as a purge. Sometimes as a judge who owes a favor.
Sometimes as the silence where a watchdog used to bark.
The battlefield is a kitchen table.
A ballot box. A classroom. A free press.
The mirror we are still brave enough to look into.
Give us the truth. That is all. That is everything.”
Verse 3
Springsteen heartland, ordinary casualties named
She worked the county health office for twenty-seven years,
She knew every family’s file and every family’s fears.
They sent the termination notice on a Tuesday afternoon.
She sat down at that kitchen table and stared at the empty room.
He coached the science team, believed in evidence and light.
They pulled the federal funding, said the facts were not quite right.
He drives an hour to the library to read what used to be free.
He says: I am not political. I just believe what I can see.
She marched in May with a sign that said one word: Enough.
Not left. Not right. Just a woman who had heard enough.
Who remembered what a country was before the fog rolled in,
Who refused to let the silence be the place the truth had been.
Pre-Final Chorus
All we are saying is give truth a chance.
(Give truth a chance.)
All we are saying is check the facts.
(Check the facts.)
Our free press is not our enemy.
Science is not a ruse. Courts are not a loyalty test.
A vote still gets to choose.
All we are saying is give democracy a chance.
(Give democracy a chance.)
Final verse
Neo-terrorism has declared war on democracy,
A propaganda war waged with words.
No regard for truth or transparent accountability,
The deep state of systemic psychopathy
Induced the cult trance of DTMP.
Don the Con is just the poster boy.
This fake freedom flag is seventy years in the making.
Wake up, unwoke America. You lost your freedom of thought.
Now we, the people, refuse to be the silent lambs.
Dissent is the gasoline for democracy.
Save the USA from MAGA fascism!
Save us from white supremacy!
Give us back our freedom!
Outro Chorus
Just give us the truth!
*(Give us the truth!)*
We are the ones who keep it!
Give democracy a chance!
*(Give democracy a chance!)*
We are the ones who need it!
No more war on democracy!
*(No more war on democracy!)*
The fog is lifting now!
Give us the light of truth!
*(Give us the light of truth!)*
The people take the vow!
Make America Think Again!
*(Make America Think Again!)*
Make America Free Again!
*(Make America Free Again!)*
Make America Fair Again!
Co-create fair, free, flourishing futures for all
*(For all! For all! For all!)*
