Representative Democracy is delicate bloom-
easy to criticise for what fails to achieve,
easily crushed by pedantry and extremism,
not to mention block voting and party systems,
and finally it is inevitable that it will be blown off course
with the abundance of power and money
among the professionals who most often
get to represent everyone.
But I am thankful for the one great gift it brings;
where it works it gives choice in and from religion.
Particularly when some faiths brand themselves
on the voting populous by recycling revenge
through piously misremembered martyrdoms.
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