In a high-tech world and among a people so highly disparate as to almost not be a people at all, the Founders would be the first to suggest changes to the Constitution.

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What would the Founding Fathers think of us now?
They'd look this mess and no doubt utter "Wow!"
Israeli lobby keeping Congress in check,
Government deficits and finance a wreck,
Deliberation given way to the merest ad-lib,
Though one thing's eternal: political fib.
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How they'd revile our foreign-policy sewers!
Kept from the eyes of civilian good-doers,
Designed for the dreams of the masters of U,
Who just like Alexander and Napoleon too,
Lust for the world, for entanglements galore,
Thousand bases abroad with room for some more.
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The Founders' great farmers to finance have turned,
The making of wheat, corn and buggies now spurned
In favor of numbers that tumble and swive
In a world in which two plus two can make five,
Or six or eight if the leverage you push:
Depending on how much you risk your sweet tush.
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What would they make of surveillance domestic?
Of Clapper's NSA or spy-drones majestic?
Sure on censoring news reporters they'd frown,
But what would they make of our papers dumbed-down,
Where news ain't just news but opinions a-mix,
Sources unnamed to the few facts better fix?
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But what diff's it make if from all types of sites
Folks get the news or just check games and fights?
Watch Harry and Meghan, hear rock or Stravinsky,
Watch music vids or on TED Talks Lewinsky,
Get Reddit just for news that holds them in thrall,
Though such a people ain't a people at all.
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The U.S. Constitution was no doubt a good call,
But the Founders would sure read the writing on wall:
After 200 years we must adopt the new new,
And stop letting billionaires the poor to screw,
In the high-tech life of a disparate nation,
It's time to question and change its foundation.

Authors Website: http://www.philipkraske.com

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