When it comes to the so-called fourth estate,
the pendulum swings both ways.
It starts out as just a trickle,
but then the power brokers begin to amplify
what turns out to be vapid proclamations
given false legitimacy by the mainstream media.
And then, when the political winds change,
which they are wont to do,
all of the ideological conspiracy theories
get sent away and put into storage
until the pendulum once again swings
back in the other direction.
Written for these daily prompts: The Daily Spur (estate), Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (pendulum), Ragtag Daily Prompt (trickle), MMA Storytime (amplify), Your Daily Word Prompt (vapid), and Word of the Day Challenge (storage).
This, That, and the Other 
That summaries politics perfectly. 🙂
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That’s true
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Very well said, Fandango! ❤
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Great poem. I thought you didn’t write poetry?!
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I don’t. That was prose formatted in such a way as to mimic poetry.
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Aha! 😂
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Good book by Jeffery Archer too.
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I’ve read several of his books, but not that one.
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I enjoyed it immensely.
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The political always swings in both directions.
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