A Blue-State Conservative Personal Ad in Verse

Just the other day, I was thinking that I hadn't done my poetic exercises in a while. Well, John Derbyshire has given me an excuse. Here's the result:

A Conservative Medium in a Blue State
by Justin Katz

Although the sympathetic ears are few
For conservatives in states that aren't red,
Embracing our beliefs, we can't be blue.

On street corners and blogs we speak what's true
And rive atrophic shibboleths when said,
Although the sympathetic ears are few.

Even as baneful policies sail through
And savings sums and household gross are bled,
Embracing our beliefs, we can't be blue.

Exposed and marked with nonconformist hue,
We sacrifice for words that might be read,
Although the sympathetic ears are few

Dishing ideology cordon bleu
Shrews force-feed each indoctrinating shred.
Embracing our beliefs, we can't be blue.

In social spheres we are the last taboo;
we seek companionship through ads instead.
Although the sympathetic ears are few,
Embracing our beliefs, we can't be blue.