STRUMPIDITY
What's needed is a term for an offbeat view of US prosperity and the economic situation at the end of the nineteenth century. A few feel that insight might warrant a Nobel Prize, or perhaps there's one to be awarded for bullying/bribing two warring parties into a peace treaty.
LIMERICK:
He's dissolved the world order -- fluidity,
Though adored by enablers -- cupidity.
When he's finally dumpèd
We'll portray it as "STRUMPID" --
An era that honored stupidity.
Giorgio Coniglio
HAIKU (17-syllable)
strumpidity: a
neologism target --
such peculiar times !
Giorgio Coniglio
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