TOO STUPID FOR DEMOCRACY
(Eileen McGann)

Oh I think we're just too stupid for democracy
Whoever thought majorities should rule?
I think we're just too stupid for democracy
Show me a mirror, I'll show you a fool.

Think of the majority of people that you meet
Do you think that their opinions should be law?
Well, if you're like the majority, you think the rest are nuts
Thus democracy reveals a fatal flaw.

Think about the average uncultivated field
There's twenty thousand weeds for every flower
And over in the corner where manure's piled high
You'll find the weeds who want to be in power.

And every four or five years they will play a little game
Saying, you can pick your leader, take your choice
And they throw us out a line which we swallow every time
And that's the end of having any voice.

Oh I think we're just too stupid for democracy
The democratic world is under curse
I think we're just too stupid for democracy
Though all of the alternatives are worse.

Dictatorship is full of nasty people who will shoot you
Plutocracy is likewise full of sharpers who will loot you
Oligarchy's full of snobs who snag all the important jobs
Monarchy is kind of fun but still I think its day is done
Communistic theory's fine but put in practice every time
It turns from nice to nasty and I don't think it would suit you
Which leaves us meritocracy
Which always sounded good to me

Folksingers in the government, and all the laws must rhyme
Folksingers in the government, oh, we'll have such a time
Jamming about policy, and singing party line
But maybe your ideas of merit aren't the same as mine.

Oh I think we're just too stupid for democracy
The democratic world is under curse
I think we're just too stupid for democracy
Though all of the alternatives
All of the alternatives
All of the alternatives are worse.

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Instead of "Folksingers in the government," I occasionally sing,

Mathematicians in the government, Algebra at Question Time
Mathematicians in the government, we'll pass the Law of Sines
Jamming about Geometry, and the equation of the party line
But maybe your ideas of merit aren't the same as mine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG1Sq72bhvg