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Bye, Bye, Miss American Dream [A Song with Apologies to Don McLean]

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Now did you read The New York Times' exit polls

That blamed Clinton's defeat on a lack of minority votes

When the KKK and the Minute Men endorsed Trump?

Now do you believe there was no fix

With the voting machines in the CIA's grips

And all those minorities told they could not vote?

Well, I know there's something rotten in that Carolina town

When votes for Clinton turn up for the Donald clown,

No butterfly ballot made in Katherine Harris' Hell

Can cast such a demonic spell,

We might have been a naive voting bloc

When we thought we voted for Hillary and learned that was a crock,

But we knew we were out of luck the day Democracy died,

I started singin'....

Bye, bye, Miss American Dream,

You got sent down the river by a Republican scheme,

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