In swing-state Colorado, the Republican Secretary of State conducted the biggest purge of voters in history, dumping a fifth of all registrations. Guess their color.
In swing-state Florida, the state is refusing to accept about 85,000 new registrations from voter drives – overwhelming Black voters.
In swing state New Mexico, HALF of the Democrats of Mora, a dirt poor and overwhelmingly Hispanic county, found their registrations disappeared this year, courtesy of a Republican voting contractor.
In swing states Ohio and Nevada, new federal law is knocking out tens of thousands of voters who lost their homes to foreclosure.
– Greg Palast
It’s past time to get to work to reclaim the election process.
We, the US citizenry, fattened on our corn products and made lazy by automation that has taken the physical effort out of work, have lapsed into a continuing orgy of voyeuristic entertainments brought to us free (but at what cost?) by the corporate marketeers who have replaced the exquisite imagery and symbol structures of a dying cultural heritage with pixelated NASCAR decals and knock-off NFL jerseys.
At two and four year intervals we vote. The elections promise us a voice in our leadership structure. Our “representative democracy” bumbles along, creating laws and policies to guide us in an increasingly complex, often chaotic world. The government administers the policies and enforces the laws based on standards of accountability that conform to our own expectations. For years we have bought into the idea that less government is better and concomitantly that lax administration of policies is somehow better than careful enforcement. Our abdication of responsibility creates a situation where the lawmakers craft legislation that benefits those who pay attention, the corporate interests, mostly, and the wealthy classes. The safety and security of communities erodes, while voters face forward into the large screen teevee challenged mostly with changing channels while not getting too much chip-dip on the remote.
Generally, this works out pretty well, but in our communities — as in nature — there is a cyclic inevitability to forces of change. Every so often people are forced to get off their butts and get to work to re-establish an equitable order. The Obama years are before us. His election is likely, but there will be a lot of work required to steer this country onto a course that approximates the direction conventional wisdom has long declared was simply the American Way. If there ever was an American Way, we know that policies of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney don’t reflect it. We know that excesses and rip-offs cultivated under Republican administration are far from on course. We know that voter fraud and disenfranchisement must not be part of it.
If there was any doubt regarding the falsehood that is the foundation of the “maverick” narrative that McCain hopes to use to cover-up his party’s failings, then the massive voter fraud that is underway and that disenfranchises huge numbers of Obama voters should put paid to that. Who benefits?
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