Playing in a Rigged Game

[reprehensor]

(I don't agree with everything this writer says, and that's alright.)

Vote Fraud: Only Chumps and Compulsive Gamblers Keep On Playing in a Rigged Game

As the Bush Machine rolls on -- through Orwellian "Patriot" Acts, Intelligence "Reforms" and "Clear Skies" Initiatives, adding treason to treason, felony to felony, unconstitutional domestic acts to violations of international law, "crimes against all humankind" to crimes against the biosphere; as it authorizes torture, domestic surveillance, and terms the Geneva Convention "quaint" -- progressive pundits waffle on with exhortations to hopefulness, ideological mea culpas, adjurations to linguistic reframing, advocating emulations of the right, and statistical analyses based on flawed polling and fraudulent vote counts, I find myself wondering: How long are these people going to keep on playing in a rigged game?

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All power to Badnarik and Cobb and Arnebeck and Truitt and Fitrakis and
Bonifaz and Conyers and Waters and Jackson and Curtis and Harris and all
those brave citizens contesting the highly dubious tally in Ohio, Florida
and elsewhere. With a judiciary stacked against them all the way to the
same Supreme Court that perpetrated the first Bush coup in 2000, their
chances of successfully litigating and reversing the outcome, having it
recognized by the judiciary, the Congress, the corporate media - not to
mention the Bush regime itself - will be a political accomplishment of
miraculous proportions and will no doubt require a Ukraine-scale turnout of
the citizenry to make it stick. May it be so!

However, failing a successful judicial, political, congressional and
popular revolt, we are dealing, for the indefinite future, with a fascist,
theocratic police state - and I use the terms precisely, not rhetorically.
("Fascism should more properly be called "corporatism,' since it is the
marriage of government and corporate power," said Mussolini, who ought to
know.) Making Howard Dean head of the DNC and commissioning George Lakoff
to "reframe" the party's "message" and PR material would be a necessary,
but hardly sufficient response.

A political system more crooked than a Las Vegas casino cannot qualify as a
"democracy," much less as the "leader of the free world." And those who
continue to play in it look to me like conscious or unconscious colluders,
or just plain chumps. Until you accurately diagnose and acknowledge the
disease, you cannot even begin to cure it.

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