Our political system is a joke

Rolling Stone's new article by Robert Kennedy Jr tells the tale of the 2004 election. RFK's excellently researched & annotated article goes into extreme depth with numerous examples outlining a plotted and calculated successful grab of the US presidency. Not that this is news to anyone paying attention, but it's nice to see such a high-profile democrat doing something, saying something... making a case!

Why, oh why, have they not started shouting this before?

It seems so utterly apparent to me and those to whom I speak that the democrats could be recruiting like nobody's business right now. If only they were willing to stand up against the attrocities that have been committed in the name of the US - at home and abroad - during this presidency, they would take back politcal control quickly and easily.

So why don't they?

Remember when Al Gore presided over the congressional confirmation of Bush's election? According to the article that I just linked to, he "blended wit and formality" to respond to the objections raised by numerous members of the house of representatives. Some of them were crying, and when I saw the video, it looked harsh when he told them to sit down. If you watched the full video, you got to see them pleading with the audience for at least one senator to sign off to get recounts, to stop the madness, to put a roadblock in front of the path to the white house... but not one senator would sign off. After years of preparation, after 8 years of being Bill Clinton's VP, after all of his years in DC, Gore couldn't find one senator to sign off for him? Not one democrat was interested in a recount?

I don't believe it. You don't spend that much time, energy, and money on getting yourself that close to the white house to bow out at the last minute. There is no difference between blue and red, donkeys and elephants, democrats and republicans. They create the illusion of choice for America, the idea that we have options. This is nothing more than theater being displayed in front of us.

The powers that be decreed that regardless of the will of the people, GWB was to be in power for the past 6 years, so they stole 2 elections because he couldn't win on his own. The democrats conceeded the elections with minor bits of feather ruffling and noise made about unfair practices and election reform, but even the reps who weren't told to play along seemed to shut up pretty fast. Now that we're coming closer to the 2008 election, the democrats are starting to make noise again, to remind us that they're here with arms open wide to welcome the folks who are fleeing in fear from the repulican elephants ready to trample them. Like the ass that is their mascot, they are just braying mules ready to be the beasts of burden for whoever's running the show behind the scenes.

Keep spreading the truth!