In 1795, just a year before his death, and at a time of enormous suffering for many Scottish people, Burns wrote a series of election ballads highly supportive of a Whig friend, Mr. Patrick Heron, and savaging the Tory slate so favored by rich aristocrats.
In January 1992, as a journalist in New Hampshire surveying the field of primary candidates, and having interviewed most of them, I was struck by the paucity of choice, and wrote the verses below for my annual Burns Supper poetry contest, as well as publishing them in the local paper.
Eight years ago, Clinton (later joined by the hideous Gore, the man that wanted to keep Elian Gonzalez in the USA to win Floridian votes) pledged to do something to help America's 34 million people with no health care coverage. Today there are 43 million Americans with no health insurance.
I had breakfast interview with Nader, one Sunday, and it wasn't easy on me or the waitress, as Ralph is a man who is either saddled with a thousand principles or he has been living with his mother too long – did you have natural oatmeal, can't you bring skimmed milk, etc. In a poor blue collar town! But he radiated honesty and boy, was that rare and refreshing.
Anyway, this is a traditional music site, and this adaptation of a Burns election address has a good tune, if nothing else:
Trogging = 1. Bartering, bargaining 2. Odds and ends 3. Rubbishy goods, insubstantial trash 4. Worthless specimens, riff-raff 5. Nefarious or illicit dealings
Wha Will Buy My Trogging?
(Tune - Buy Broom Besoms)

Wha will buy my trogging?
Fine election ware;
Broken trade of hucksters,
All in high repair.

Buy braw troggin
In the North Countrie;
Wha wants troggin
Let him come tae me.

Davie Duke's not cast his cowl
Intae the Grantite State;
An all-white population
Gies him naebody tae hate.

Buy braw toggin, etc.

Poor Agran and Fulani got
Excluded frae debate;
They wadnae lay their siller doon
On fuhrer Spirou's plate.

Buy braw troggin, etc.

Glitzy Billy Clinton gabbin
O' his health care plan.
Wi' his ane provider, speir,
Is he Prudential's man?

Buy braw troggin, etc.

Pat Buchanan's fuming at
Thon scand'lous New York Times;
He's just an anti-Semite chiel
When read between his lines.

Buy braw troggin, etc.

And shed nae tears for Wilder, tho
He's droppit oot the race;
Fast track tae the White Hoose?
Fie! We dinnae trust sic pace.

Buy braw troggin, etc.

Should Jolly Joker Kerrey
Ye try tae catch and grill,
He'll blithely skiddle roond the gaff,
Ye'll hook his brither, Bill.

Buy braw troggin, etc.

Geordie Bush at Cabletron
Tae fool us a' he shares
Five minutes wi' the workers,
Wha toil for millionaires.

Buy braw troggin, etc.

Now Harkin and his lawyer clique
Cry "Up the working man!";
But hard times ower in Farmington
They're unco laith tae scan.

Buy braw troggin, etc.

On pachyderms and donkey fowk,
Waste neither cash nor love;
Write in yon honest Nader's name,
And nane o' they above.

Buy braw trogging, etc.

Braw=fine, siller=silver, ane=one, speir=ask, chiel=lad, sic=such, skiddle=move rapidly and lightly, unco laith=very loath, fowk=folk.

Incidentally, Nader, as a write-in candidate got five percent on both Democratic and Republican ballots. Then, as now, he drew crowds numbering thousands, and yet was not granted interviews (= censored)by marvellously liberal papers like the Boston Globe.

P.S. If the UK had remained content with Conservatives and Liberals, the Labor Party would never have become established, and, without their national health system, millions of Britains would also be completely without health coverage, today.