Regarding lost elections, when there is significant fraud in 2001 and 2004:
– ballot miscounts, caging lists, and supreme court “arrangement” in 2001
– voter harassment both via phone and while waiting in line to vote
– voting machine shortages in poor neighborhoods
– voting machine “glitches” that always favored republicans
– central tabulators that were wildly different from exit polls for the first time since they’ve been recorded
– programmers hired by republicans to write programs for swapping voting totals
– absentee ballots from soldiers overseas being thrown out
– and these caging lists consisting primarily of names common among black and hispanic democrat voters (which, when found and checked for accuracy by county officials, turned out to 95% WRONG on listing people ineligible to vote)…
..well, there’s certainly cause to cry foul. There is also plenty of reason to question how well our votes will be accounted for in this year’s election. Most of these insecure, compromised, or buggy voting machines and central tabulators are still being used. The caging lists are still growing, being filled with even more names of people who have every right to vote. Polling stations have not been given more resources. The people who harassed voters were never found and stopped.
If the loss had been fair and square in either case then we’d have no one to blame but ourselves. But when there is so much thwarting of fair elections by the people in charge of providing them, the burden of responsibility rests overwhelmingly with the cheaters.. cheaters who have used their false-win to undermine everything that America is supposed to stand for – turning us more rapidly than ever from a nation of Freedom, Justice, Opportunity, and the pursuit of Happiness into a nation of Oppression, Secrecy, Occupational War, Torture, Neglect, and rampant Corruption.
All of the major problems being faced by the US: Iraq, Afghanistan, Torture, Katrina, Gas Prices, Mortgage Crisis, Lending Crisis, Food Prices/Shortages, Climate Change, Federal Overspending, National Deficit, Outsourcing, Low Wages, Unfair taxes, etc. etc… these are all present or worse from the direct decisions made by Republicans on behalf of corporations and other sources of privately held wealth.
They don’t care about the future and they certainly don’t care about you. They think of you as a national resource, something to be neglected and exploited… like a feedlot animal, a strip mine, or an oil well.
Palin is no different in that respect, in that she has no respect for life or dignity beyond her own inner circle. She sees herself as a Christian Soldier.. a General even, ordering all women to be mothers – be they poor, abused, raped, or otherwise – so they may give birth to fodder for endless war and corporate servitude. She believes it to be God’s will that the rich be powerful and pampered; and that the Earth and its poor are here to be neglected, controlled, and exploited for the whims of the powerful.
In Palin’s vision of the world, every mother is on her own.. as is every child, once born. When they leave the womb, their right to life and happiness ends.
Then in her ideals, your children may be allowed to starve on the street, die of a preventable illness, treated as a criminal, tried as an adult, put on death row, sent to war, accused of being a terrorist, abducted and held in secrecy, tortured, deported, harassed, or drown in the aftermath of a hurricane.
No help from the government.. because helping a nation’s residents is not what McCain, Palin and the rest of them see the role of government to be.