a microcosm of America
must capture immigrants into the mix
less lily-white and old that Iowa
more urban (not to call all farmers hicks)
each party's free to choose its nominee
by free and fair elections, or by lot
and only when it's down to two or three
the People pick from what's left in the pot
imperfect system save that all the rest
fill out the range from 'bad' to 'really stinks!'
but if we'll never prove one system's best
it's clear that what we've wrought has got its kinks
as long as we must treat Mammon as "speech"
democracy's forever out of reach
must capture immigrants into the mix
less lily-white and old that Iowa
more urban (not to call all farmers hicks)
each party's free to choose its nominee
by free and fair elections, or by lot
and only when it's down to two or three
the People pick from what's left in the pot
imperfect system save that all the rest
fill out the range from 'bad' to 'really stinks!'
but if we'll never prove one system's best
it's clear that what we've wrought has got its kinks
as long as we must treat Mammon as "speech"
democracy's forever out of reach
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