Machiavellian

It is immoral for a Prince
To promise to his people
What he cannot deliver.
Nor is he a leader who
Demogogues the few,
Making them scapegoats
For the many.
It is not enlightenment
To harness envy
As a means of gvernment.
And only the most foolish
Would think the rules
That apply to individuals
Are not just as binding
On nations.
The people who follow such a man
Walk in darkness.
And the tragedy of it all
Is not the fall of the mighty,
But of the innocents destroyed
In his falling.