Buzzflash: Nations do go crazy sometimes

[GregD]

“Nations do go crazy sometimes, and the progression of symptoms we've been exhibiting here in the Good Ol' USA has entered rubber room territory”



Yeah, I know the drill: I'm supposed to 'get over it'. Well, I will not pretend to act like this is fine. That the system worked. That we did what we could, that they won honestly, or, even if they didn't, that it's time to move on.

No, I am devastated and I weep for my country. But I am also as angry as I am heartsick.

I am devastated because this time Bush really was elected. Not by the vote count; oh no, voter fraud was rampant. What the Republicans did in Florida in 2000, they refined in Georgia in 2002, and they got down to a science this time around, especially in Ohio and, yes, Florida. This fraud wasn't so "in your face" all across the country that it cried out for us to rise up and do something about it, nope, it was just enough for that precious 50% + 1 of the vote. Enough to declare victory.

As for us rising up and doing something about it - 2004 proved what 2000 merely hinted at: we are not rising up. We are not going to. We are sad but we will do nothing except make vague threats about next time. Next time we'll get them. Next time.

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It's worth reading the rest

http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/04/11/con04489.html

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[knowbody0]

2. amerika, the battered wife

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

3. Trouble is, when NATIONS go crazy, it's usually nothing very good that

comes from it. It's not crazy like, "we stayed up all night drinking and dancing and woke up with a hangover in the gutter!"

It's more like "we kind of went crazy and enslaved a lot of people and threw a bunch in ovens! What were we thinking!"

[Mojambo]

4. Germany has GOT to be thinking

Thank god, this might finally take the heat off of us...

[murray hill farm]

5. Soo...what happens now?

The grand experiment in democracy and capitalism has run its course?
It has evolved to the place where it must fail? Where it has failed? Fun while it lasted? Can it be saved? Or has it wheezed out its last breath...and we all know it? Did we know it in our hearts even before the election was stolen again? 2008? NO...it is over...if this one is left unchallenged...it really is over. Whoever above me in this tread who said that "the heat is off germany" is so very correct.

[murray hill farm]

6. GregD

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