Leaden Leaders (governance)

As leaders, we just barely rate.

We narrowly habilitate.

By any means we dominate

with cover-ups like Watergate.

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To rule supreme our one mandate.

Each one of us a potentate.

The world is ours we estimate.

The good that’s done we then negate.

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With colleagues we collaborate,

but treat the rest like excess freight.

We bully and manipulate

and choose not to negotiate.

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Our custom to prevaricate:

an instinct in our genes innate.

Deception is a skill connate.

For these sins we will not lustrate.

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A lot of crap we fabricate,

reality we obfuscate,

the vital facts we expurgate

and falsehoods we enunciate.

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Unbridled greed we instigate.

Vast funds we misappropriate.

We take, but fail to compensate.

These acts we always exculpate.

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In question time equivocate

and with straight faces nuncupate.

Ignore those who interpellate.

Long-term goals we abominate.

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The voters we conciliate.

At conferences confabulate.

Amendments we intercalate.

In question time we hibernate.

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Opposing thoughts, we denigrate,

though like minds we can tolerate.

We love those who ingratiate

and help us to re-nominate.

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Two fingers high that bifurcate

from all the crowds that execrate

this growing global feudal state

where overlords officiate.

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