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in another sports arena and all over the streets of Chicago, who couldn't get into either one. I think this crowd was about 250,000, so the total could have been half a million or more. And I understand there was dancing in the streets in other cities--Seattle, L.A., Boston, Atlanta, New York.
The contrast to 2004, when the American people felt so betrayed, and few had any notion how very betrayed they had been, with Stolen Election II (same story, different means), is remarkable. I remember seeing clandestine photos here at DU--which I don't think were ever shown by our Corpo-Fascist media--of protesters throwing rotten eggs at the 'presidential' motorcade, as it took George Bush to his phony inauguration. I remember, too, that his approval rating had already fallen to 49% on that day--unprecedented for a recently re-elected 2nd term president--and it never recovered, just went into steep freefall--like the WTC towers, another instance of the unprecedented and the unlikely--down to its present level of about 20% (closer to Bush's real numbers all along, I think), in a pile of horrifying dust and ruins: our country. On that day, Bush had only the fawning media to cheer him on, for more death, more torture, more spying, more looting. The people were silent, sullen, with a brave few throwing eggs.
And this...this spectacular crowd in Chicago, of volunteers, of real voters, of every color and age and shape of our beautifully diverse nation, celebrating a real president, is such a stark contrast with the other, that it leaves one stunned, for a moment, almost as if this was not real. But I guess it's true that there is something unreal about democracy. How did anyone ever imagine that it would work? The dull thud of tyranny seems more likely, and has too often occurred, throughout history, for us to take a moment like this for granted. It is rare and beautiful.
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