{"id":1914,"date":"2024-01-04T15:40:59","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T21:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/?p=1914"},"modified":"2025-01-31T13:22:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T19:22:13","slug":"american-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2024\/01\/04\/american-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"American Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>American Democracy bumbling right along <br>with reckless raucous, rabble-rousers breaking into song. <br>The dashboard for democracy shows something isn&#8217;t right.  <br>Whose had enough?  The Dummy Light is blinking and it&#8217;s bright!  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Managed borders, law and order, both seem from the past. <br>And everyone trust wind and sun, who needs natural gas? <br>Student debt &#8211; just write it off; the lesson to be learned<br>is that those, who pay their debts are dummies who get burned. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A second grader&#8217;s little brain is something to abuse?  <br>Some public schools help them decide the pronouns they should use. <br>And free speech, it still exists, across the U.S.A? <br>Just know the groupthink boilerplate and exactly what to say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who are the Goobers at the wheel?  They all know who they are. <br>It&#8217;s all of us, clowns on the bus, a supersize clown car. <br>First we moan, and then we groan, how bad that things are gettin&#8217;, <br>and when it&#8217;s time, we all vote dumb, and then do more regrettin&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(The Random Poet:01042024 <br>therandompoet.com) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Democracy bumbling right along with reckless raucous, rabble-rousers breaking into song. The dashboard for democracy shows something isn&#8217;t right. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2024\/01\/04\/american-democracy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">American Democracy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-observations","category-pre-nov-5-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1914"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1975,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions\/1975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}