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Democracy, by Charles Bukowski

the problem, of course, isn’t the Democratic System
it’s the
living parts which make up the Democratic System.
the next person you pass on the street,
multiply
him or
her by
3 or 4 or 30 or 40 million
and you will know
immediately
why things remain non-functional
for most of
us.

I wish I had a cure for the chess pieces
we call Humanity. . .

we’ve undergone any number of political
cures

and we all remain
foolish enough to hope
that the one on the way
NOW
will cure almost everything.

fellow citizens,
the problem never was the Democratic
System, the problem is

you.

I will add the comment, too, that the core difference between true conservatives and everyone else, is that we are not looking to the government to rescue us.  We are not looking to politicians to magically make life better.  We simply want the freedom and the space–from sons of bitches in the government, and sons of bitches everywhere else who want to lie, cheat and steal–to make our own way.

And we figured out a long time ago that some clever politicians CREATE the sons of bitches, so that we vote for them to make them go away.

We need some government.  We need cops, so we don’t have to shoot the sons of bitches ourselves.  But beyond that, we ask only that God protects us from good politicians, from government “aid”, and from all the hands that hold us down by trying to hold us up.