uncentered

'Til Bernie Sanders deigns to educate
a voter-pool less bright than it is hot
they'll act not out of knowledge, but from hate
what socialism is, and what it's not

political discourse has skewed far Right
(as in America we use that word)
like Eisenhower sailed by Marx' light
'though in the wider world, that looks absurd

the wisdom to self-rule eludes us still
to make our State conform to what we want
and pen just laws that work the public will
from polls of polity that's ignorant

dismissing Plato's fear of demagogues
the Donald slings red meat as if to dogs