DOOMED DEMOCRACY
BY
Democracy depends on
elections to make it work,
Elections depend on
participation -- not those who lurk,
Established politicians
depend on their party to get there,
Less than half
Canadians get involved in this affair.
So something is wrong and we should sit down and figure out,
Maybe mandatory voting
would establish some clout,
Maybe voting for
senators and High Court judges would help,
But appointees
and all Parole Boards might scream and yelp?
And Parole Boards tend
to let criminals out of jail,
Maybe murderers,
rapists or those who couldn’t make bail,
Turning our already
soft justice system into junk,
While our so called
Charter democracy smells like a skunk.
July 14th, 2012
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