RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: WORLD DEMOCRACY
Losing Democracy
Every nation that has lost democracy
Never saw it coming
Every nation that wants democracy
Knows how hard it is to gain it
Losing democracy begins with the idea
That it can’t happen here
That our press is too established
That our institutions are too strong
That our courts are too honorable
That we’ve held our values too long
We take democracy for granted
We fail to protect the right to vote
We allow parties to betray principles
We turn our backs on treason
Out of anger and desperation
We elect autocrats and traitors
We watch as they overturn elections
We watch as they expunge voters
We listen to their propaganda
We believe their lies
Losing democracy is easy
Protecting democracy is hard
Restoring democracy is harder still
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