*sigh*

[ravan]

I read an article today about the election, and the statistical odds of bush winning the actual count without fraud given the exit polls. You have a better chance of winning the fucking lottery. The mainstream press is ignoring it, the rethuglicans are saying it's just 'sour grapes'. Fuck.

We have now had three elections (200, 2002, 2004) with mounting evidence of major fraud and/or malfeasance by election officials and election equipment vendors, and only the "conspiracy theorists" and "sore loser liberals" give a damn?? What the fuck is happening in my country? Why can't any of us say or do anything to fix this shit? Why are they getting away with it? Why can't I do anything to stop it?

This shit is seriously scaring the crap out of me. I can't ignore it, or crawl into some nice safe little consumer fantasy like so many others. It really bothers me, because I care, about real freedom, the constitution, and the future.

At least Bin Laden and his band of thugs are blatant, and do shit that we can recognize as an attack and deal with the damage. But the erosion of the basic principals of our nation from within, without any meaningful protest, makes your garden variety terrorist acts seem almost benign.

I am beginning to believe that 9/11 was allowed to happen (maybe even encouraged) by the rethuglicans, for political gain. I guess I've joined the tinfoil hat brigade. Or at least the tinfoil lined passport case brigade...

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[weofodthignen]

Oh by the way, I forgot to add--how Republican was Roosevelt? The US has not had a large amount of experience being at war. Even WW2 was a short experience for Americans, with only brief rationing and only one or 2 attacks on American soil after the initial experience of Pearl Harbor. And the response to Pearl Harbor and the way WW2 was conducted were so different--sorry, I just cannot buy the argument that this administration's response to 9-11 is "just the way things are in wartime" or even that it is an effective response. Just as I am not impressed with the general public's difference in attitude toward authority this time around after the much better showing as an informed citizenry that they made during the Vietnam conflict. If we are to learn lessons from history--which by the way I think is a simplistic way of looking at history--then by both those examples, the current experiment in fascism is a new way of doing things.

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