is this two-party system the best we can do?
or can we innovate more?
technology expands with More’s law
but politics is a bore
somehow, we’ve groomed this game
so that it continues to divide us
following the old pattern of us versus them
now all it does is spite us
diminishing us to our basic flaw
the battle of good versus evil
the knowledge that banned us from paradise
and continues to spawn upheaval
while 30 “third” parties act as community theater
in our pageant of the body politic
that we only give credence to two of them
really does make us lunatics
the night and day of left and right
and the parties that they throw
the limited choices of two lesser evils
is really no way to grow
our democracy isn’t given to us
it is something we create
it’s not a product or a commodity
or a gold trimmed dinner plate
it’s an idea that we are equal
and as we continue to inhabit the planet
your input is as important as mine
but we really need to admit
that we’re all just making this up as we go
and doing the best we can
but we can’t become complacent
democracy requires every woman and man
with ranked choice voting we can progress
to hear more than the two corporations
the manufactured contrivance of democrat and republic
has become an abomination
we the people are more than that
we know that life is more than a market
but if we want to sell things now and then
it would be nice to still have a planet
we need to expand our vision
beyond the line at the bottom
we need a more complete worldview
to let democracy blossom
