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I looked it up, and it sounds to me like Irish politics.

This is an interesting blog that uses the poem and expounds on the meaning as it reflects the state of politics today. How it related to your father's time and experience is something you would have more insight of but politics has truly gone through little change since Greek and Roman times and likely before that.

The influences are more in step with the flavor of the day as we continue through time so we have our own skew on things but the basics can be seen in Aesop's Fables, I Claudius or any of the Greek, Roman or Nordic mythologies.

Cogito Ergo Geek

This is a link from the first link attempting to describe the political environment we live in using Kipling's poems, "As Easy as ABC" about "Sheeple" (also one of the early science fiction stories set in 2065) and "Macdonough's song".

Defining a New Political Spectrum

The first link also remarks on how Kipling foretold of the future (today) as in the ancient gift of Cassandra

Hope this helps, it was interesting for me. Thanks for the nudge.

I book marked it, thanks, Don - a lot of heavy thinking there

Thanks for the research Don. I guessed it was along those lines. Have no idea why it is in these papers or who copied it.

It is about Left Wing Politics.

Macdonough isn't a real person. The poem is part of a story by Kipling called "As Easy as A.B.C..", and Macdonough is an person referenced in the story, though not a character.

In the poem Kipling was writing specifically about The Russian Revolution (that was just starting as he wrote it) the French Revolution and the Paris Commune (which pretty much foreshadowed how the Russian Revolution was going to come out), and Socialist revolution in general.

Kipling's point (similar to the one he makes in THE GOD'S OF THE COPYBOOK HEADINGS) is that Social(ist) Revolution has been tried many times in human history, and it ALWAYS...ALWAYS winds up in terror, tyranny, starvation and tears. If you actually ever research the issue this is pretty obviously true. (Google up " Holodomor " and "Cultural Revolution" or "Year Zero" or "Gulag" or "Great Leap Forward" or "Maduro Diet").

The sad thing is, Kipling wrote this BEFORE most of the great tragedies brought about by Socialism happened... so it is more appropriate now than it was 100 years ago when he wrote it.