Cyberattacks!

By Daniel Hoeweler

What happens to American Democracy? When your twitter feed is filled with Bots working as foreign agents When your television screen touts half-truths When your youtube video feed is faked and You can’t separate fact from fiction What happens to American Reality? When lies go viral And propaganda is propagated At the speed of light Through ethernet wires From foreign adversaries What happens to American Culture? When the American people Are deceived And dissuaded And misinformed And manipulated At the behest of a Tyrant What happens to American Diversity? When hatred is cloned and spread To millions Within the blink of an eye From a computer prompt A thousand miles away What happens to American Freedom? When our politicians are bought When our thoughts are muted When our rights are restricted From foreign lands What happens to the American Dream? When our freedoms are fettered And dissolved into the Desires of a Dictator What happens? America breaks and oozes Into the fabric of autocrats Who want to watch American democracy Die Who want to alter our American Reality Who want to change American Culture Who want to Divide American Diversity Who want to suppress American freedom And destroy the American Dream Till we are left Drifting in a foreign land Unable to live in America Because it has become something Unkind Unfree and Undemocratic The despots dream To rebuild a new Anti-American America.This poem is a criticism of foreign cyber-attacks on democracy and the American Political System.