RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: WORLD DEMOCRACY
The Fight for Democracy
Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel
Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua
Viktor Orban in Hungary
Recep Erdogan in Turkey
The fight for democracy
Takes to the streets
Spread the word of truth
To everyone you meet
From Budapest to Istanbul
From Jerusalem to Managua
From Tallahassee to Tbilisi
From Atlanta to Kiev
The enemies of democracy
Growing bolder, growing strong
We’ve set off the alarm bells
We’ve seen it coming all along
The brazen warnings in Taiwan
The crackdown in Hong Kong
They want to crush free press
In every way that’s wrong
They want to curb the right to vote
They’re pushing hard and strong
If we want to keep our freedom
If we want to keep our rights
We will have to grasp reality
We’re in a long hard fight
No one said it would be easy
The struggle never ends
Self-government will survive
If only we defend
The people’s right to speak
The people’s right to choose
As long as we hold strong
The people cannot lose
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