Relative Politics

Is there no common data base?
Does everything have a floating standard?

Now that values have become relative
Must we also have relative facts?

How must the electorate determine
To whom to cast the deciding vote?

Must we decide based on emotional relativity
We see no values, facts, truth or platform

Debates are not debates of the issues
They are conflicting statistics and sound bytes

Each politician sells self, a persona
Suspend the facts, values, truth and platform

Politicians are behind changing masks
I am who you want me to be

All is fair in love and in politics
Sort it out after the election

mtc 1996