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thinks of McDrone and Ms. To Nowhere, for instance) and some do not indicate any result as to reforming our voting system. Kennedy and Mark Crispin Miller can talk themselves blue in the fact about the profound insecurity of our voting system, but in what venues, reaching how many people, and what has been done about it?
As to the latter--what has been done about it?--the answer is virtually nothing, by officialdom. Half the country will be voting with no paper ballot and no paper trail of any kind. No audit or recount is even possible. The other half may vote on a paper ballot, but those ballots are just dumped into a box and never counted, while the electronic total, produced by 'TRADE SECRET' code, becomes the official total. Some states, of the ones that even have a ballot, do a 1% audit--totally inadequate in 'TRADE SECRET' code. (Some experts say a 10% audit is the MINIMUM necessary to detect fraud.)
My main criticism of your post is what it leaves out--the basic facts of our voting system that indicate that Corpo/fascist forces can easily--EASILY!--(s)elect the president and vice president, members of Congress, and, indeed, any office in the country. The voting system is more than 99% non-transparent and extremely insecure, with the 'TRADE SECRET,' PROPRIETARY code by which votes are tabulated owned and controlled by Bushwhack corporations, with virtually no audit/recount controls.
The trouble with some (a lot of) political analysis is that it assumes that, if Democrats win, we have not suffered a Corpo/fascist coup d'etat. The $700 billion bottomless bailout of the richest people on earth--the latest in a series of lootings of our treasury and our pocketbooks that are without precedent in history--should teach us that we have, indeed, suffered a coup--that we will have the Forever War and the Forever Looting--unto the 7th, the 8th, the 9th generations--no matter who, of the R's and the D's, is in charge.
Fact #3--in addition to Facts #1 and 2 ('TRADE SECRET' vote counting; virtually no audit/recount controls)--is the most dismaying of all, and that is the silence of our Democratic Party leadership on this egregiously anti-democratic, mindbogglingly non-transparent voting system--whether out of fear or corruption, it is hard to tell.
The uses of Corpo/fascist direct control of election outcomes are many--not just the obvious one that any election can be stolen. EASILY stolen. This non-transparent control of election results is both a symptom of how bad things are, in every other way--because it could not have been put in place in the USA without serious, endemic corruption--and it is not just a means of the global corporate predators selecting particular candidates, but it is also a tool of fear and blackmail and intimidation, and it is a means of insuring that office holders are not beholden to us--to we, the people--but rather to the Corpo/fascists who control the voting machines. Office holders thus become deaf to us--and we have major examples of this all over the landscape of the last four years, the most obvious one being the Iraq War. 70% of the American people oppose the Iraq War and want it ended; we voted, with that as the number issue, and elected Democrats to do something about it--but the new Democratic Congress did exactly the opposite of the will of the people. They ESCALATED the war, and gave Bush/Cheney billions and billions more of our non-existent tax dollars to keep killing Iraqis until they sign the oil contracts.
When you have a non-transparent vote counting system, you are forced to look for inferential evidence that elections have been stolen, and, of course, the system has been designed to make it difficult or impossible to prove. One strong inferential piece of evidence that the 06 Congressional elections were stolen is a Congress with a TEN PERCENT APPROVAL RATING--worse than Bush's!
Were these people elected? There is hardly a one of them who can prove that they actually were. And--surprise, surprise!--they have engaged in one action after another in diametrical opposition to the interests and the opinions of the vast majority of the American people.
Because Obama supports the Forever War (--wants to move it to Afghanistan), and supports the most mind-boggling theft of national wealth ever to occur, and other such Corpo/fascist policies, they may well (s)elect him, figuring he can't do too much damage as to reclaiming our wealth and restoring our democracy; his (s)election will dampen the alarms of good people like RFK and Mark Crispin Miller, about the election system, and prevent the sort of massive citizen reform movement that is needed to restore PUBLIC VOTE COUNTING, and then they can EASILY get rid of Obama (whose administration will, in any case, be burdened with gazillions in debt), and bring on Hitler II in 2012. That is the Germany 1930s model. But this time there won't be any need for the "brownshirts" to stuff ballot boxes and beat up voters. It will all be completely invisible--perhaps run from some computer facility in Dubai.
You correctly observe that the national political climate seems to be altered--apparently for the good. But I think you underestimate the long term plans of the Corpo/fascists who have gained total control of our economy, our military, our public airwaves, and our very voting system. The latter is the coup de grace--the final blow--to our democracy. And we must fix this. We MUST--or our country and our democracy will be irrecoverable. (It is still fixable at the state/local level, with sufficient citizen pressure--but not at the national level. Beware the Diebold III Congress "fixing" the election system--as the Anthrax Congress did.)
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