the shortfalls of mandates

it's easy to forget that half of us didn't vote,
and easy to call them lazy.
but perhaps they've noticed
the establishment's wholly owned subsidiaries
haven't represented us in decades.
perhaps they think
300 million people
choosing their leader from a field of 2,
vetted by billionaires,
in campaigns designed by
the people who sell us toothpaste,
with no actual ISSUES being debated,
turns Democracy
into a sick Orwellian joke.

at any rate,
when you despair that
most people chose the Great Strutting STrumpet,
think of this:
2 million less than half of the half
voted for him.
and many of these were
voting against the War Queen,
or the system itself.
that leaves PERHAPS an eighth.

the country may not be
quite so full of ignoramuses
as the M(isl)edia makes it appear.

it's just that different people
have different responses
to drowning in irony.