if We the People can't have privacy
we can't with straight face claim we're sovereign
in what was formerly Land of the Free
mere subjects who had once been citizens
Ben Franklin warned we'd barter away rights
and dignity that had been ours from birth
in delegating others to the fight
to keep secure our status on this earth
to cheer for politics like it's a game
preferring not to engage, but to shirk
makes civic duty a parade of shame
where hireling sleepwalk through the nation's work
democracy requires that we engage
in something more profound than greed or rage
we can't with straight face claim we're sovereign
in what was formerly Land of the Free
mere subjects who had once been citizens
Ben Franklin warned we'd barter away rights
and dignity that had been ours from birth
in delegating others to the fight
to keep secure our status on this earth
to cheer for politics like it's a game
preferring not to engage, but to shirk
makes civic duty a parade of shame
where hireling sleepwalk through the nation's work
democracy requires that we engage
in something more profound than greed or rage
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