Can the people be trusted ? - Democratic Underground

kentuck

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Mon May-23-05 10:05 AM
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Can the people be trusted ?

After all is said and done, we cannot come up with a better answer than to let the people decide. The people in the last election apparently chose George Bush, with all the illegal and unethical shenanigans notwithstanding. Now we are reaping the first harvest from that decision last November. How much damage can they do between now and the next November that they will choose?

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Avalux

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Mon May-23-05 10:09 AM
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1. I keep clinging to a hope (perhaps unwisely)

that the people of this country will set things straight. They will wake from their fog and realize the terrible injustices and lies fed to them daily - and get ANGRY. I have to believe it can happen, and hopefully sooner than later.
I have to believe Bushco is underestimating the common folk and will go too far.

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spooky3

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Mon May-23-05 10:20 AM
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6. I agree with you. If enough people were angry enough,

no amount of election fraud could overcome it, because the huge gap in the polls and people's behaviors, vs. election results, could not be dismissed. (and I do believe there is evidence of fraud)

But I'm afraid that most people are The Earth Is Flat voters: "I looked out my back door, and my yard looked flat to me, so the earth must be flat." Sadly, more of the long-term negative consequences of his horrid policies will have to come home to roost for many people to see them.

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impeachthescoundrel

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Mon May-23-05 10:11 AM
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2. Can't agree with that one

The people didn't choose him at all. HE STOLE IT pure and simple. I have never seen such an evil person in my life.

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liberalitch

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Mon May-23-05 10:14 AM
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3. "Where the press is free and everyone can read then..."

"...all is safe" (Thomas Jefferson)

TJ thought that we were the only ones to be trusted.
when we were a more literate nation I would have agreed. But now we are a nation of nonreaders (the last book our president read was "my pey goat" and you remember what happened then) and it is amazing what can be stashed away in between the pages of books and newspapers... where no body thinks to look

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Toots

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Mon May-23-05 10:19 AM
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4. Not according to Bush* and Jim Baker

"People are subjective where machines are objective" J Baker 2000 ..Only machines can be trusted...

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KansDem

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Mon May-23-05 10:20 AM
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5. With education comes trust...

Edited on Mon May-23-05 10:22 AM by KansDem

I believe the American people suffer from a collective ignorance. If they knew, they would make the right choices...

But when a significant number still believe that Saddam was responsible for 9/11:

Nearing the second anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, seven in 10 Americans continue to believe that Iraq's Saddam Hussein had a role in the attacks, even though the Bush administration and congressional investigators say they have no evidence of this.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A32862-2003Sep5¬Found=true

...and only 2% can name all five freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment:

58% — freedom of speech
18% — freedom of religion
14% — freedom of the press
10% — freedom of assembly/association
2% — freedom of petition
http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=16836

Then we Americans have some serious problems with education. Without education we have ignorance and with ignorance we have Republicans...

The question now might be "Is American in its dying days as a great nation?" After all, no nation lasts forever, so maybe...just maybe...all this is supposed to happen...

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