RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
A Fragile Republic
The experiment that began centuries ago
With a declaration of independence
That survived a multitude of assaults
That survived the Alien and Sedition Acts
That endured the institution of slavery
That triumphed in a bloody civil war
That outlasted Jim Crow reconstruction
That overcame a Great Depression
That suffered through attempted genocide
That pushed through women’s suffrage
That demanded essential reforms
A constant moving forward toward
The better angels of our being
Now totters on the razor’s edge
of popular autocracy
The question now to every one of us
is whether we will be the generation
That allowed our democracy to slip away
on the promise of a charlatan?
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