Rage

Have you ever wonder why in all near future movies, there were no middle class and media's control everywhere. All media personalities look so perky and clean.

I knew media has lost its trustworthiness long before this election; however, my distrust deepened ever so profoundly through the night of November 2nd. I feel like I aged at least 10 years overnight.

I refocused fairly quickly by reading some of very early crucial posts on DU, including one by SoCalDemocrat and Skinner. The information about DFA also gave me a channel to act out. ( I went to their local meetup on November 3rd. This was the very first time I actually attend a political grass root activist meeting. I am still a resident alien but I am planning to become an American citizen soon despite the fact many Americans are thinking about leaving this country.)

Do you have any idea why Japanese people lost their interest in politics very long time ago? Because, the system was fixed long time ago. How you may ask? The way precincts are organized. In Japan, rural residents have enormous power to control the election outcome to the point demographically dominant urban residents feel powerless. At the same time, LDP control their rural base working on their ignorance and greed. (Japanese farmers cannot survive without huge subsidies.) Yes, after the bubble burst in 1985, there were a short period of Socialist administration and LDP break up. However, there is no 'grass root' activists’ base in Japan. In late 60's there were a small window of opportunity but it never materialized fully and eventually vanished. This is one of the reason I came to United State where people actually participate politics so that people can work for a better world. Make no mistakes there are increasing number of Japanese people who are very interested in causes. In fact, more and more younger generations are into NPOs, many of them, international organizations.

Now, back to this election…
Recall how most of November 2nd was like. Remember some MSNBC talking head slipped her/his tongue to call Kerry a soon to be president? Remember Zogby prediction? Remember Kennedy congratulated Kerry? Remember Hannity almost cried? Remember Tucker Carlson said Kerry won? Did you forget everything? Remember we were talking about what we should drink? Someone even asked about which Champaign is good?

We all knew and agreed that Kerry was going to win because of exit poll.

Once for all, let's make this 100% clear!! Exit poll is very accurate to the point it won't predict the wrong side to win. I have a PhD in Mathematics and I used to work in data modeling company. Well, exit poll is so accurate that in some cases it is actually used as a tool to verify the published results. (There is a small article about this in NYT yesterday. It was posted on DU but I did not have time to find a link.)

Now I start understanding where my rage is really coming from. As a scientist/ mathematician, we do analysis and conclude the result based on data and generally accepted theories. How could media discredit exit poll itself just because it may expose Republican fraud? All these media whores, who have been relying on exit polls for long time to predict the result until 2000, can say ‘exit poll is inaccurate'? How dare you denounce the well established scientific method just because it won’t fit in your corporate portfolio?

Well, I should not be surprised since Bush has been putting ‘his scientists’ left and right into committees and academies to get his ‘scientific result’.

I remember that I said 'but exit poll is right' when I first hard about CBS's 'mistake' in 2000. I was not quite sure what was going on with recount. However, I later learn what really happened in Florida. In 2000, voting fraud was done most at the level of sending out registration by manipulating database query.

People use Nazi Germany to describe * administration. In my opinion, this country is heading back to Mediaeval Age and theocracy, where science no longer matter, where our supreme court would become our 21st century Inquisition.

Unlike some DUers, I don’t feel anger towards most of people who voted for Bush because most of them would be treated even worse than most of us by Bush. Remember blue states are always helping red states economically. I just feel profound sorrow for them because they are so misinformed. Call me elitist if you like but sometimes the fact is just plain and simple.

I taught College level math for 8 years. Through those 8 years, there are so many adult who don’t understand the concept of theory, regardless of generally accepted scientific theory or mathematical theory. Any topics other than ‘pure moral value issues’ ( by the way gay issue is not a moral issue since it is already proved people are born gay, not by choice), I have enough reason to call them very misinformed.

Frankly speaking, I don’t want to hear anymore doubt about ‘massive e-voting fraud committed’. It is possible that Bush might have won popular vote thought most likely by such a huge margin. At the same time, Kerry won the electro votes as exit poll predicted.

We won. We won. We won.

Since now the system itself is high jacked, we are forced to prove our ‘theory’!! And make no mistake, we will.

Hertopos

So nobody care.... Hertopos