Just as corrupt as its banking and investment system is America’s way of voting. Running about America at the present moment are “thousands” of lawyers challenging the right of millions of people to vote. This in the land held up as the champion of democracy. The Statue of Liberty must feel like sinking into the sea with shame. Having “stolen ” the last election by voting irregularities , Bush winning by 500 votes due to the good old cronies in Florida , the Republicans are at it again. Some of those being scrubbed off rolls entitling them to vote are soldiers daily risking their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan. The obscenity of this action is breathtaking.
Until there is a major overhaul of the American voting system the nation is in dire peril not from outside external terrorists but the fascists within who use money, legal chicanery and mobster tactics to keep themselves in power. The corrosive influence of money in US politics is beyond doubt. Ralph Nader colourfully said politicians adopt their normal position, down on knees, when approached by big business wanting anything put into legislation.
One of the suggestions being put forward for electoral reform is that impartial election officials conduct elections and the counting of all votes. That’s one tiny step which could see the US walking on the moon . It is also an open admission the present system is rotten to the core and does not serve the people. In other words, it is not democratic .
Until there is a major overhaul of the American voting system the nation is in dire peril not from outside external terrorists but the fascists within who use money, legal chicanery and mobster tactics to keep themselves in power. The corrosive influence of money in US politics is beyond doubt. Ralph Nader colourfully said politicians adopt their normal position, down on knees, when approached by big business wanting anything put into legislation.
One of the suggestions being put forward for electoral reform is that impartial election officials conduct elections and the counting of all votes. That’s one tiny step which could see the US walking on the moon . It is also an open admission the present system is rotten to the core and does not serve the people. In other words, it is not democratic .
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