Kakistocracy This stupefying stupidity Kleptocratic cupidity Banality and venality Acting reacting out of spite Out of sight and out of mind tonight Out of touch with reality Is the numbing dumbing-down spectacle of What happens to us without love After the rise but before the fall I wonder is there hope at all Unable to bring myself to say The name you know it anyway By now and how I wish it could be Another time in history But here as they lock up democracy now I fear this ends badly somehow Sadly a bad time for me to be A madman in a kakistocracy Steven Curtis Lance