Down With Democracy

"Democracy is the rejection of all great individuals." - Friedrich Nietzcshe

Half the world has gone utterly mad
forgetting reason and history
to follow this new fangled fad
of giving every animal in the jungle equality

The lazy man who's never read a book
has the same say as the industrious scholar;
the foolish woman who's her children forsook
marks the same ballot as the devoted mother

Remembering the myriad crimes of tyrants,
so many embrace the opposite madness
escaping from eons of withering heat
to chatter in a freezing modern abyss

For as every schoolchild knows,
no-one applies themselves
where little profit or distinction follows:
the same meal given to giants and elves

But this applies not just to communism
which was mostly veneer,
but far more in lands like here
where the barbaric dollar is king
and from every hillside commercials ring

Do the poor benefit from absolute democracy?
business moguls control their votes
like puppets on strings
playing to their superstitious ignorance
with great hypocrisy

But don't think I advocate
a return to rule by an oligarchic few,
a forsaking of liberal progress
to return to the worldview
of some draconian date...
or an authoritarian state
of "socialistic" bliss

No, the common folk should have a say,
every gas-pumper should some vote enjoy,
but tomorrow will be worse than today
should the reins of power
continue as Everyman's toy