391. Poem: Education

So then this guy comes to the mike and says I know it's hard to avoid electing dumb people when you've got to give the vote to all the people smart or not because sometimes the numbers come up dumb and that's the price you pay for democracy like yellow journalism is the price you pay for a free press and dumb commercials are the price you pay for capitalism and I say shit yes life is a trade-off but then the next guy says but we can trade up the dumb people I mean the under-educated people can have smart teachers and the dumb I mean under-educated students if they pay attention can get smart a big if because they have to want to get smart and they won't want that unless their parents and what they call culture wants them to pay attention and get smart and that shows how big the if is but if we all work on the problem hard we can solve it and not elect such dumb people any more and he got red in the face and needed a glass of water before he said a bunch of other smart things but I can't remember much now except that the guy was thirsty.