Politicos are great at saying what
people want to hear.
Support lower taxes? They'll find a
way to throw you a bone.
Support soaking the rich? They'll
agree with that, too.
They claim that up is down, and left is
right,
green is red, and purple is just like
white.
War is needed, and so is peace,
greed is good, but charity is nice.
Good roads and interstates are
necessary,
hospitals and malls and subdivisions
too;
Downtown development is a priority,
yet suburbs need improved, for me and
you.
Partisanship threatens our capitalistic
democracy,
the wheels of government seem locked
down tight;
backroom discussions take place in the
meritocracy,
Last-minute solutions are presented well past midnight.
The underneath processes seem quite
confusing,
until one considers that most of these
guys
attended the same ivy league
institutions.
Perhaps a few pep talks from the old
and wise
arrived via phone calls, while performing their ablutions...
Bills get passed, then signed, and life
goes on.
People never really change; only the
technology
of governing control is different through the centuries.
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