Tocqueville's poetry often seems to me to be referencing the conflict in the third world. Africa, Syria, Lybia, the Middle East, and even the southern Slavic countries. He writes about the people living there, the horrid conditions and the cruelty of soldiers and dictators who run the country by force. He talks of the atrocities people are faced with, families torn apart and killed women and children raped, homeless, or starving.
He also talks of the ignorance of the US population to the condition of people elsewhere in the world, we here are to self-centered to see the suffering going on elsewhere in the world so caught up in our vanity that it blinds us even to the wrongs here. Problems in the US over striving for un-attainable expectations, social customs and racism.
The hypocrisy of governments and the corruption within them, he talks of religion, and politics and they way they worm into our society in ways we do not think of. The way our societies expect us to think and act in certain ways to uphold the status quo, rather than think freely for ourselves.
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