tirade in cinquain refrain

"there is nothing here to be seen.":
misdirection's opening screen.
insurrection is creeping keen,
'alternate truth' its protection;
misdirection's insurrection.

to see and not to say: perverse.
to choose blindness: possibly worse;
a fell kindness driving a hearse.
give not in to the crowd's madness;
to choose blindness? a fell kindness.

should we fail to call this bluff
history will, with time enough,
make us its shills; an earned rebuff.
if we yet quaff this stagnant swill
history will make us its shills.