On The Hatred For The Wholesome Poem by David Welch

It seems to be something of a trend
to dump on happy endings these days,
and anything that shows moral sense
brings calls to be cancelled right away.

The only thing the elites accept
is the dysfunctional and depraved,
anything else must be childish,
from 'simple minds' mired in cliché.

I've been alive long enough to see
that yes, the world can be truly cruel,
But I have seen that just as often
it can be a hundred shades of cool.

And to demonize the wholesomeness
that some entertainment will provide,
to scoff at all the family values
that brought the millions fulfilled lives,

how does that make a person feel smart?
How do they not realize, in their brains,
that life has as much light as darkness,
that there's more than just wallowing pain?

I admit there is real value in
examining things that make us hurt,
but isn't there as much value in
looking into what makes this world work?

I think it comes down to two reasons,
and the first I say half-way in jest,
to me it seems our society
is a victim of its own success.

To put it simply, some folks are bored,
with the type of life that we all have.
Where once we struggled just to survive,
now we feel fat and lazy and bad.

The morals we used to celebrate
worked so well they became commonplace,
we forgot how they built our nation,
assumed they were the natural state.

And given the questing human mind,
we went out looking for something new,
but when things are good you only find change
flirting with less moral points-of-view.

You start to fetishize the bad-boy,
romanticize all the criminals,
of course, you're safe while your doing this,
so you don't comprehend it in full.

And then it creeps into the culture,
hidden by buzz-words like ‘tolerance, '
but like any drug, the hit wears off,
and you need more and more decadence.

Until you've been immersed so damn long
that you think it is all that is real,
that there's nothing but the decadent,
and you are so desperate just to feel.

Some people are destroyed by all this,
others burn out and make a retreat,
realize the wholesome is not that bad,
and away from the cities they beat.

But then there is the second reason,
one that I think is much more malign,
one that comes from the P.C. brigades,
one that's craving control of your mind.

See families don't vote for the left,
or they do at a much lower rate,
people with wholesome family values
are much harder to manipulate.

It's the same reason pedophiles
target families that don't have a dad,
they know that brings them easier pray,
no one to stop their intentions bad.

If you believe people are just clay,
as so many damn socialists do,
then the good ideas tested by time
are seen as a great hindrance to you.

If dysfunction is what makes people
look to you when they're in need of cash,
then anything which threatens than chain
is something you must get rid of fast.

And since families with two parents
often do well enough on their own,
you'll do anything to stop that trend,
even if it means breaking a home.

You'll fill the airwaves with bad role-models,
then declare that you're just ‘being real, '
you will say that everything's okay
as long as it's what you really feel.

You'll declare that single motherhood
is just as good as a dad and mom,
and if anyone tries to correct
you'll decry them as sexist and wrong.

You'll make everything political,
and leave the people with no refuge,
you'll turn aside all beauty and grace
to celebrate the ugly the crude.

You'll label good people as backwards
for wanting a spouse and some children,
then you will cheerlead debauchery
so that nobody imitates them.

You won't see society falling,
just the power you wish to achieve,
these people who badmouth wholesomeness
care not a bit if they make you bleed.