...grown more and more resistant to the propaganda of the war profiteering corporate news monopolies. If you study the issue polls here, you find that huge majorities of Americans disagree with every major Bush policy, foreign and domestic, and have for some time (since way before the election). These polls are not widely reported or discussed, but they constitute compelling evidence of a great American progressive majority that has existed throughout the Bush junta and grows stronger every day, despite relentless propaganda.
The vast poor of Venezuela may be less saturated with rightwing propaganda because many cannot afford TVs, whereas the majority here is more plugged in. But in neither case are the majority of the people buying the fascist line. The No. American poor and middle class may have further to go (than Venezuelans) as to analysis and action on the sources of their woes, but both I think understand that they have been plundered and enslaved by global corporate predators. The biggest difference between Venezuela and the U.S. is that Venezuela has OPEN SOURCE CODE in their electronic voting system (that is, anyone may review how the votes are tabulated), whereas our election system has become highly non-transparent, with 'TRADE SECRET," PROPRIETARY programming code in the new electronic voting systems, and with vote tabulation controlled by two rightwing, Bushite corporations (Diebold and ES&S). No one--not even our secretaries of state--has the right to review how these corporations are tabulating our votes.
Open source code = good president, good government.
Trade secret, proprietary source code = bad president, bad government.
It's almost that simple.
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See this URGENT ACTION thread re: Diebold in California!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5410364 Throw Diebold and ES&S election theft machines into 'Boston Harbor' NOW!