Reply #15: Think about it [View All]

One of the world's newest democracies - the Ukraine - sensed immediately that its election had been stolen. The election exit polls told them that its election had been corrupted. It immediately did something about it.

Immediately! Didn't wait for the TV reporters, the newspapers, talk radio and the rest of their media...

They immediately went out into the square in Kiev and filled it and stayed there until something happened - and it did happen - a new election and election law reforms.

In this, the world's oldest democracy, the fountainhead of all democracies of the modern era, we had exit polls, that were, uh, "weighted" to match results, that told us that the elections here were fair and just and uncorrupted.

But many of us didn't believe that the same exit polling method used in the Ukraine (we actually paid for that one in the Ukraine) was telling us, after a little "weighting" that our elections were fine and dandy.

Now the Ukrainians have a very simple parliamentary democracy that seems subservient to the will of the people, especially when hundreds of thousands of them gather in the streets and the squares and stay there for weeks, in the bitter cold, and demand that something be done.

We don't have that. We depend on the media to tell us things and we act accordingly.

The media? They are telling us nothing. So we do nothing?

The "victorious" Republicans? Why should they say anything? They won!

So what do we do? Do we go out into the bitter cold and stand there until something happens? Maybe we could. But we won't. It's too cold.

What is left when so many of us know that our election was stolen from us and we feel so helpless in doing anything about it?

What will it take to follow what Jefferson said about a corrupted government enslaving its people. Because, my friends, when elections are stolen, the electors - the people, become enslaved by the election thieves.

Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court said: "The right to vote, without which all other rights are illusory."

Shall we smother in our illusions or shall we gather together, even in the bitter cold, to defend our precious rights?