Bush lost the 2000 election by 500,000 votes and was royally appointed sovereign by the Supreme Court; hanging chads and confusing columns; voter registrations from poor and minority neighborhoods dumped in the incinerator by the thousands, robocalls to citizens in these same neighborhoods to intimidate or deceive them into not voting; making sure that these "undesirable" precincts have fewer voting machines and the oldest and most broken down ones, to increase the time to wait to vote, thus sending thousands home in frustration without voting; voting on computers and seeing the opposing name of the person they voted for instead of the candidate they desired; millions of American citizens disenfranchised using all kinds of dirty tricks to keep people from voting, including caging, purging and medieval laws persecuting felons, and in more and more states, even those who have misdemeanors (see below!); hard drives with vote counts on them going missing for hours on end, voting software so easily hackable that a high kid on their PC could easily change the results to whatever they wanted with a few key strokes and some spare time; opaque ballots boxes stored where only (the currently ascendant) Republican operatives could enter"I'm already out of breath! Oh, and I forgot: photo IDs now being required, knowing full well that it is the poorest and minorities who have the highest rate of NOT having a photo ID in the US.
A quick survey of today's headlines shows that many of these corrupt practices are still being openly engaged in and being universally ignored by America's citizens. It is all so diabolical and downright disgusting, yet Americans seem to love it and revel in all this anti-democracy dirt.
Two Sides of the Same Trick Coin
We have a presidential election coming up. And I think the big problem, of course, is that someone will win. Barry Crimmins
I bring up Democratic election malfeasance from a generation or two ago for a reason. This is not a case where the Republicans are uniquely evil and the Democrats saints. It is a case of spoils to the victor. In war, the victor publically gets treaty reparations and new national boundaries. But behind this veneer are the spoils of rape, plunder and pillage. Ditto the political cycles we live through.
In politics, the victors publically get to pass laws and deciding on enforcing or not enforcing laws and regulations on the books. Behind closed doors, the victors get to draw up Picassan-Munchean gerrymandered voting districts and coveting all those stuffed ballot boxes.
From 1880-1930, Republicans were King on the Hill and plundered the country and its resources (as they are wont to do), as well as corrupting the election process during the Gilded Age. While pillaging America's resources, they used the raw power of money to buy judges, congressmen, the White House and state governments like so many buckets of minnows and jars of chad to be fed to their mako shark owners.
This ascendancy goes in cycles. Democrats took all this to heart and when they were ascendant from the 1930s to the 1970s, adapted these methods of corruption to their strengths. New Deal Democrats at the state and local level simply paid people to vote for like-minded judges and politicians, who in turn made sure that contracts, construction and employment, with the requisite kickbacks, fueled the corruption. When they couldn't buy the votes, well, it was just a simple matter of stuffing those opaque urns with ballots.
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