Dynasties

inequity's a problem for Rousseau
that renders any government a joke
distinctions marking who's high and who's low
pretend we aren't all of us just folk
the Scandinavians have got it right
although on paper they still bow to kings
their titled gentry wield no special might
and none would bend a knee to kiss their rings
but in the States, we've lost our Founders' zeal
as if some families bled bluer blood
and neither with their toe nor with their heel
trod with the peasants on the common mud
we raise aristocrats to be our curse
'though each ensuing Bushling makes it worse