Selling Crazy

Selling crazy, fueling hate, stoking fires for the irate.
Sowing discord, feeding fear, spouting what they want to hear.
Build a market, build a base, draw divisions built on race.
Faking news and making hay, Rupert Murdoch leads the way.

You can take a narrow mind and squeeze it even thinner.
You can take a starving man and feed him crap for dinner.
You can have a thousand channels, one for every point of view
To assure that no one ever has to find out something new.

Mocking science, pushing lies, all with such indignant eyes.
Shouted slogans, driven home, leading thoughtless mouths to foam.
War on Christmas, war on class, pull it right out of your ass.
Split ‘em up and box ‘em in, pound with unrelenting din.

You can take a paranoid and make him bat shit crazy.
You can make a wealthy man believe the poor are lazy.
Herd us into separate pens, so we’ll attack another
And gladly let you rob us both as I deny my brother.