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Thread #52271 Message #800430
Posted By: Naemanson
10-Oct-02 - 12:43 PM
Thread Name: BS: Rick Fielding for King?
Subject: RE: BS: Rick Fielding for King?
As written and sung by one of Rick's fellow Canadians. I really like the next to the last verse.
TOO STUPID FOR DEMOCRACY By 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 democarcy 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!