National Referendums Now

The people create and make the wealth,
But the elites too often control the wealth,
While the people are rarely heard from,
As those those elite who control the wealth,
Too often make the important decisions.

It is the richest elites who fool the people,
Through the media the rich have paid for,
In specious advertising often twisted and warped,
And through contributions of elitist politicians,
The donations that the elite corporations have paid for.

One way for the people to be heard, for a change,
Is through direct voting on important national issues,
Instead of leaving the decisions to politician,
Often bought by corporations and various elite donations.

But the people are not allowed to vote directly on any national issues,
For the decisions must be diverted to elite politicians,
Who have their own private interests and ambitions,
Far beyond listening to the people,
Who are often s thought by them to be a social class beneath them.

So the tragedy of democracy is that it is not truly democratic,
But the major decisions are the plaything of the media, the politicians
With their own private ambitions,
And decisions protected from the people,
Since they are never allowed to vote directly on them.

The truth of course is the nation is not a true democracy,
But more of a plutocracy,
Carefully set up to avoid the people,
By not letting them vote directly on any important national decision,
But letting a plutocracy, the rule of an elite wealthy few,
Parade itself as a real democracy,
When the voters never get to vote directly on any national issue,
Which would truly make the country a real democracy.