- cleaning with contaminants
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- eating poisoned food
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- fluoride in our water
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- explains our nasty mood
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- racing for the cure
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- but running from the cause
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- the games people play
- don't let facts get in the way
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- educated to be ignorant
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- medicated to be sick
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- it's public policy in America
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- a tragedy, a trick
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- forged news we're given
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- false choices to make
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- we vote on machines
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- democracy's a fake
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- brainwash the children
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- with pledges of loyalty
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- as the rich become
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- our modern day royalty
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- The American Way
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- it's upside down
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- as protesters march
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- led by puppets and clowns
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- some wear white
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- in abject surrender
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- abandoning the battlefield
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- before justice is tendered
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- America is special
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- Bush says with a grin
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- the rules don't apply
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- we fight, we win
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- but reality is a sobering thing
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- we're Rome all over again
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- not built in a day
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- but burning just the same
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- one day soon the oil will be gone
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- and as the earth grinds on without that lubrication
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- will the wobble increase?
- will the planet cease?
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- let's hope time runs out
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- on the American Way
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- where money is king
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- king everyday
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- Lynn Landes is one of the nation's leading freelance
journalists on voting technology and democracy issues. She also writes
about the environment. Readers can find her articles at EcoTalk.org. Lynn
is a former news reporter for <http://www.dutv.org/>DUTV and commentator
for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
- Contact info: lynnlandes@earthlink.net / (215) 629-3553
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