Autocrazy Autocracy with a nod to Peter Levitt Look around.
Ah..."Bread and circuses..." A term coined by the Roman poet Juvenal. (Sounds kind of like "juvenile," doesn't it?) O, our Roman predecessors! We learned much from them, except how not to repeat their mistakes...
And we're paying for that not learning...
Though opening your poem to the lie detector test gone wild was jarring and a bit of a warning for what was to come, I think you nailed it.
Ah..."Bread and circuses..." A term coined by the Roman poet Juvenal. (Sounds kind of like "juvenile," doesn't it?) O, our Roman predecessors! We learned much from them, except how not to repeat their mistakes...
And we're paying for that not learning...
Though opening your poem to the lie detector test gone wild was jarring and a bit of a warning for what was to come, I think you nailed it.