John Kaufman Political Ditties by Rumple Oxbridge

Rumple Oxbridge: “In Ignorance We Cannot Trust”

By Michael Vadon (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

By Rumple Oxbridge (imaginary rhymer-in-residence)

What Gov. Walker learned, at last, is this:
ignorance is only bliss
if ignorance is all there is —

“In God We Trust”
will soon go bust
if you think God thinks for us.

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By Michael Vadon (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons
[For the NY Times’ Frank Bruni column, 800 words of prose on the relationship between Gov. Walker, Republican candidates and ignorance, see “Scott Walker’s Cocktail of Ignorance.” ]