broken tripod

Tripartite government, as sketched by Locke,
presumes adults fulfill their proper roles
but our democracy's put on the block;
big donors outbid citizens, and polls.
Since Buckley v. Valeo, it's gone wild,
 a "right' to buy high office guaranteed!
All culminating in this orange child
whose only principle's his endless greed.
Our First Amendment guards symbolic speech
for Kaepernick, as surely as for Kochs.
But now, the ante's wholly out of reach
no voice is given to the common folks.
A legislature failing at its job
sold off our proud republic to the mob.