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Harsh but mostly true, I think.
Many social movements base their popularity on texts that are basically free-form poems. Eliezer, Moldbug, Ayn Rand, even the Sermon on the Mount :-)
...or like women's suffrage or abolition!
Not all poetry is equally valid or has equally defensible aims.
What does it mean for poetry to be "valid"?