Putsch by ballot

Am I supposed to be taking notes? Why the fuck aren't the rest of you? Not just my country, but the rest of y'all's, was stolen. This was not an irregularity, not pregnant and hanging chads this time. That set the precedent, though. If we let them steal an election once, do you think they'll stop at one? Not with the people behind them. Bush Sr. and his cronies? Hello?!? The Saudi royal family's money just bought the American politcal system - lock, stock, and barrel. Thanks for driving your SUVs. Remember in public school, when they taught civics? About how we live in a participatory democracy, and the best one in the world at that? Gone.

This was a multi-faceted coup. First was the hacking of the ballot count. Which by the way, can't be challenged because the methods used for 'security' are deemed secret. Ministers throughout the land told their cultsflocks to vote or go straight to Hell. And they continue to be tax-exempt, and don't expect that to be changed anytime soon. These are people that want women in dresses, AIDS patients in camps, and fundamentalism as the mandatory state religion. Allying themselves with Catholics is a temporary measure, and if they solidify their power more (bet on it,) those same Catholics shouldn't think themselves exempt.

To make all of this so much worse, the mainstream corporate media isn't reporting this. CNN just reports on how it was all so smooth, compared to expectations. They didn't challenge Bush on the invasion of Iraq, either. Apologizing for this after the fact isn't good enough. So the populace is effectively silenced, because they think if something was amiss, they'd hear about it, right? Things must be fine, right?

So the next time, it won't be a plurality of 3 million votes. And you'll wonder why the vote was so lopsided, even though all your friends voted for the other guy (if they bother to vote.) Because you most likely won't have exit polls to look to, as they will have been thoroughly discredited. ("They got it wrong two times in a row!") Some states might even ban them.

The left can't just sit on its collective ass and take this in despair. We're the only ones who actually believe in such original intent concepts as separation of church and state, due process before the law, that all men and even the psychochristians are created equal... A second term and the Republican Congress mean that PATRIOT II is a certainty. Wait til they start arresting librarians for erasing patron records. It also means the Constitution Restoration Act, which eliminate a crucial check on the Congress. School prayer will soon follow.

Remember being so sure that nothing like this could happen here?

It's not just a matter of waiting out the next four years. America is collapsing under the weight of its own overbearing 'morality.' And it's taking the liberated majority with it. We're facing a dynasty consisting of president-sons of the CIA. The same organization that toppled all those socially progressive governments, killing untold thousands, and created all this (*surprise*) animosity toward us in the world. The problem is us, people. And it will get so much worse if we don't do something about it here. We can't have coffee and wear ironic t-shirts and buttons on our urban man-bags. Something more is called for. Action is required, or else what's the point of this country?