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your stomach, and prepare you to realize that your fellow and sister Americans are, as a whole, really stupid people, in whom you should lose faith, because they vote for unjust, heinous war and torture, massive thievery, massive unlawfulness, multiple tax cuts for the super-rich and a $10 TRILLION mortgage on our future (despite all other polls saying they don't support these things at all). They just love George Bush and trust him that Jesus will tell him what to do.
They want you to believe these nutjobs are the majority, and crawl out of their cobwebby medieval churches every election day, to vote for Jeebus, and then crawl back into invisible musty corners of America, where they don't answer the telephone for pollsters.
However, I don't think it's going to be quite as bad as 2004. For one thing, ordinary voters are finally realizing what's going on, and are voting by Absentee Ballot in droves (in the 30 states where it is permitted)--a huge increase in AB voting in direct proportion to the cancerous spread of Bushite-controlled electronic voting machines. These voters don't trust the machines--they've gotten the word--and are trying to find away around the rigged electronics. This is a very important difference from 2004. The word is out. Therefore, the electronic voting corporations are in some danger of losing their election theft capability. And I think they will temper the vote stealing in craftier ways than before--and I think they started way back in the primaries. Notice how many Dems are running whom people have to hold their noses to vote for? I call them the "Bushite Democrats"--like those who voted for torture and suspension of habeas corpus the other week. (Diebold/ES&S controls results in our primaries as well as general elections.) I think we are going to see a Dem majority in the House, but with a large component of these "Bushite Democrats" as the swing votes. They will prevent impeachment and any real reform. The Senate will keep a Bushite majority (probably Repub) to further block impeachment and serious reform. This would be the smartest strategy for the rightwing Bushite corporations that control almost all the vote counting in the country (with TRADE SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code).
I may wrong. They may just steal it all. They DO have the capability. The AWESOME pro-Dem polls, and then the phony Bushite "surge" at the end, does follow a pattern. If combined with a big theft of all the seats, the pro-Dem polls could be a psychological strategy aimed at demoralizing the majority (--something I've strongly suspected the Dark Lords of orchestrating). It's similar to putting a tasty meal in front of a tortured prisoner, then pulling it away and "waterboarding" him, and sending him back to his cell and starving him for a few more days, until he "talks" (--in our case, the purpose is to cause us to give up working for progressive change, in utter hopelessness).
There really isn't anything in place to stop them. And Hastert pre-emptively swearing in Bilbray in the CA-50 special election, before all the votes were counted, certainly haunts me. What would the Dems do in the face of massive fraud, and mass use of pre-emptive swearing in of Bushites, while challenges and recounts were occurring? Do the Dems have enough fight in them to cry foul and stop it? I dunno. They don't have a great track record.
But a lot of things have changed since 2004--besides the huge rise in public consciousness about election fraud, and Bushites' miserable polls (on-going for some time now). Meltdown in Iraq. Public consciousness of massive theft, abject failure of every Bush policy, utter hypocrisy and immorality of Republicans, massive abuse of power, the great discontent of the U.S. military and other establishments like the intelligence community. Bush's inability to get rid of Rumsfeld (--I don't think Bush has the power, let alone the courage, to do it), despite the great discontent in the ranks. Katrina (--a biggie)--the callousness and studied "incompetence" of these dirtbags. Also, there is quite a lot of evidence of a split between the Bushites and the Corporate Rulers (--for instance, the corporate news monopolies springing an old pedophile sex scandal on the Republicans four weeks before the election--that was truly strange and unprecedented). Perhaps the Bushites have become bad for business. They have most certainly given Corporate Rule a bad name. Need to staunch that heavy odor--with a bit of fireworks investigation, then reconciliation of the "old boys club" (the Dems and the Corporate Rulers). (I saw 'em do it with Iran/Contra. The winks, the nods.)
Anyway, it's not just the natives who are restless. Some of the powers-that-be seem unsettled as well. And that will likely mean that SOME change will be permitted, but, until we get off our citizen behinds and fundamentally reform this putrid election system and get transparent, verifiable vote counting, the change is going to be disappointing, and far, far less than what is needed to repair the extensive Bushite damage to our country and its people (and to other peoples), and to achieve real democracy in the U.S.
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