Comment Re:Moral High Ground (Score 1) 2087
What about the people who were stopped from entering the poles? (I'll tell you now, it wasn't the elite that were kept out!) What about the people who refused to vote because the theoretical "choices" were virtually identical? What about the people who voted their conscience and spent the next several months being blamed for Dubya? What about the fact that the president's brother--his BROTHER--was responsible for delaying the recounts; can we spell "conflict of interest", boys and girls? What about the fact that Florida law called for a recount that was not allowed to procede? Remember, Gore NEVER asked for a recount! It was legally required, not by ordinary Florida law, but by its CONSTITUTION?
Now might be the time to admit that the electoral system was ment to keep democratic government out of the grubby hands of the people (it's true, read the work of the founding fathers, especially Mr. Adams the elder). Now might be the time for a revolution.
Thomas Jefferson, by the end of his life, felt that a revolutionary war would be required every twenty years, every generation, so that the government could be redesigned to fit the needs of the citizens, so that the government would be precious, vital, painted with blood, to those who mandate it. By his reconning, we're two centuries and more overdue.
Now might be the time to admit that the electoral system was ment to keep democratic government out of the grubby hands of the people (it's true, read the work of the founding fathers, especially Mr. Adams the elder). Now might be the time for a revolution.
Thomas Jefferson, by the end of his life, felt that a revolutionary war would be required every twenty years, every generation, so that the government could be redesigned to fit the needs of the citizens, so that the government would be precious, vital, painted with blood, to those who mandate it. By his reconning, we're two centuries and more overdue.
