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Theocracy -  a form of government in which a country is ruled by religious leaders or divine right.  Vocabulary.com >> 'not a lot of room for dissent in a theocracy.' Betsy DeVos, still current Secretary of Education, is noted to have come from a family of fundamentalist extremists. Betsy's husband Dick founded Amway, which was determined to have run a pyramid scheme (or a scam) to manipulate its employees. 

This poem was written January 4, 2017, a few weeks before Donald Trump was inaugurated as President. We can take it as a look ahead, from back then, to what we are experiencing now . . .