On Right Wing Co-Opting: How Political Concepts Lose Their Meaning

If you put enough honey in the poison

Today I’m sharing a poem about the trend of ideas and policies to get co-opted and alienated from their original meaning in service of other political agendas.

It emerged from a walk and talk in the woods with a philosophically-minded friend of mine, who brought up how Donald Trump has now advocated state funding for free college education, albeit throu…