Democracy, the Fat One cried -
It’s ours, you lot haven’t a clue !
We’re big, we’re the best, your way is all lies,
For only OUR vision is true.
Democracy! The Fat One yelled,
We’ve worked at it everso hard !
We’re gonna make sure our democracy stays,
And we’ll start by controlling our back yard.
First we’ll begin by stealing all your gold
So OUR lifestyle stays pleasantly high;
Then we’ll manipulate, cheat, to maintain a firm hold
Until your hope eventually dies.
Then we’ll seek power, because you are all fools,
And not to be trusted with dreams:
We’ll find the depraved and use them as tools
And block off our ears to your screams.
Now one day you’ll rise and the monsters will go,
And this rebirth will be a new dawn -
We’ll stifle your trade, watch your despair grow
And undermine you with our scorn.
Oh! The Fat One is best, our democracy’s strong,
We’re Masters – for that is our Fate !
You’re way out of line, your ideas are all wrong,
Let us substitute misery and hate.
For this is the price that you have to pay
To maintain OUR greatest ideal:
Democracy’s easy when done our strange way -
Just trample on others and steal.
July 00
Western nations have the mistaken view that making others weak makes themselves strong, that subverting other nations’ democracies (e.g in South America or in the Arab world) and stealing their wealth is justified in order to maintain an unequal status-quo. In this sense much-lauded USA democracy is bought via the dictatorships and poverty of other countries.
The recent history of Western control of world resources (and the USA is the most powerful Western country) usually goes like this:
- Suck out all the resources from a nation until an independence movement starts fighting back
- Instal a strong puppet government, often one that’s good at keeping up the pretence of democracy whilst secretly practicing torture.
- When the independence movement finally regains control of its country, assiduously treat the newly independent country as an ‘equal’ meaning competing on a ‘level’ playing field with an overwhelmingly powerful economy .
- Mock the country as a basket case and undermine it.
Democracy shouldn’t stop at a nation’s borders. When we start giving some sort of voting rights or a say in how our nations are run (because powerful nations affect weaker nations) to individuals in other nations, then we can say that we live in democracies.
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Comment by nicholas muthama
the fact that i live in a third world country and the knowledge i have frm the history of my nation i can completely come into terms with the sublect matter of the whole poem. colonization gave the so called great nations the power they yield. they took advantage of our primitivity and they pretend to come to our rescue.
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