Election time

Nothing specific, but as quite a few of us will be asked to vote in the near or not too distant future, a cynical thought on election time in a modern democracy -

They who in folly or mere greed
Enslave religion, markets, laws,
Borrow our language now to bid
Us turn up in freedom's cause

It is the logic of our times,
No subject for immortal verse—
That we who live by honest dreams
Vote for the bad against the worse.

... with apologies to Cecil Day Lewis.