Superlative Mediocrity

I will never understand
how it is that my government
is always saying how much
it is doing 'doing more for the country
and doing it better than other countries
do it for themselves, and does what it does
better than every government in history',

I reach the point where I think
that were the speakers of this bilge
challenged every time
they overused it, the listener
would turn the speaker off
because of how ugly
the consistent disagreements
would sound.

And that is before the interviewer
gets to quote the statistics in which
proof of the point gets so diffuse
that you wonder what they
are quoting the statistics for.  

Maybe every government
of every country in the world
does the same thing, They all rely
on a monoglot misunderstanding of language
to hide how they all behave the same way
from listeners who for not understanding
other languages, or their own.
don't know how much each language
is equally good for telling lies in.