Meet Me On the Baseline

 
I know you want your team to win
in this contentious
political combat cauldron.. 

So I always expect 
major creative spin
to frame the issues your way..

And blaming the other side..
for everything bad
is standard procedure today
but can we not at least agree
on basic standards
of human decency
that can still unite us?

Can not we 
as part of this shared humanity
mutually condemn those cretins 
on either side
who violate even the minimum
baseline of morality?

There still has to be a line
of appropriate behavior
that good people never cross..

But if we continue 
choosing to value politics
over doing the right thing
then we as a species
are indeed forever lost