*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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[ravan.livejournal.com]

The problem this time was that the choice was to find the lesser of two evils and many people, myself included, decided that four years of Bush while the Democrats got their act together and found someone we COULD vote for was better than a possible eight years of Kerry.

The problem with 4 more years of Bush is what he is doing to the judiciary, and the budget, with a lapdog congress to assist him. Yes, Kerry was the lesser of two evils in many ways. I wanted Dean, personally. But Kerry doesn't lie any more than Bush, and he flip-flops less, when you actually look at the records.

John Kerry wouldn't appoint so-called "strict constructionists" to the federal bench, including the supreme court. Kerry wouldn't appoint anti-gay, anti-civil-rights, anti-choice activist judges to the federal bench.

Nobody likes abortion, but that right to chose what to do with your own life and body is too precious to turn over to some bible thumping liars who wears their religion on their sleeves when it suits them, and who would make their supposed savior furious, IMO. Kerry wouldn't have pandered to people who value fetus's so much that they would trample on doctor patient priviledge, curtail a womans right to chose the use to which her body is put, and even support giving "religious" pharmacists the right to make medical decisions for women by refusing to fill their prescriptions for birth control, regardless of why they need it, yet have no regard for the living children. The "no child left behind" thing is really "no child really educated".

Kerry wouldn't be talking about an "ownership society" where the only owners happen to be big corporations. Kerry doesn't call clearcutting "conservation". Kerry wouldn't demand that government science actually toe an ideological line.

Dean even had good marks from the NRA.