#127 Democratinsect

It's one of the few times in its insanity, humanity hasn't lied

When it acknowledged as homage our greatest sin is pride

We like to pretend our philosophy is unique, it's hypocrisy

That our culture has the only properly practiced clique of democracy

This hypothesis is preposterous, but it's argued in absentia

From our monstrous cluelessness of kingdom animalia insecta

You heard me right, the insects of this earth elect the ruler of their state

Let me not just infer or be impolite, let us go instead straight to the debates

You'll see the idea and their demeanor, none of us will know the victor

Each bug claiming they are meaner and stricter

The reBuglic stands strong, the empire looms past the horizon

A democracy far greater than any you've yet laid eyes on

Up to give their first spiel, it's their incumbent overlord

You may feel he's worst, vitriol inherent like swords

But he's grown soft in the underbelly, a ready reason for uprising

He was one once feared as Machiavelli, now treason wouldn't be surprising

Next in line to argue for lord insect elect

Is a dungbeetle intellect out to infect

The masses of lads, neuter, and lasses with their talk of a dystopian ideal

But sadly he's badly and madly arguing a position too intellectual

A long nosed weevil sniffs around then takes the stand

Claiming to be the ultimate evil she unleeshes the zeitgeist canned

Appeals straight to the hearts by claiming bacteria welfare

She's got rhetoric as an art, delighting in the fear and the scare

Right next to me you can see the bumblebee, causing a buzz

No chance to flee as she would sting with glee through his fuzz

Causing a stir trying to get the masses to collect as a colony

You can hear her avoiding calls of socialist sticking to her policy

Demanding reform an armed alliance as urgency

Is the cockroach claiming they could live with spiders in harmony

That together they could take this land by surprise

A very curious call to be Lord of the Flies

The mosquitos and moths, the butter and dance flies

Each have their representative, watched by stalked eyes

It's not a responsibility to take lightly, the leader of this space

Just think twice when you claim democracy as sole domain of the human race

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