Dog's Breakfast

I cannot stand any more. I was feeling a bit hopeful about the November election, but it’s almost certain to me right now that nothing is going to stop the Bush administration from stealing it. Or rather, whoever is behind the Bush administration, as they are only the tip of the iceberg. I don't know the whole story and I doubt anyone does, but it's very obvious that Bush is merely the anointed front man, though his family has major connections with power.

The main reason they’ll get away with it is simply that they’ve learned, obviously, that they can just go ahead and do what they want, right out in the open (or nearly), and there won’t be more than a twitch of criticism. People don’t even see what they do. It’s the most freaking unbelievable thing. They will stop people from voting (blacks mostly) and they’ll get away with it 90%. They will rig electronic voting machines which are well recognized by election officials as being easily rigged and/or hacked and in any case highly untrustworthy even when not tampered with. They’ll miscount ballots and obfuscate when called on it. Like that ludicrous nonsense at the last election, when perfectly obvious ballots were tossed out as “can’t figure out what the voter wanted,” and even Pat Buchanan admitted that all those elderly Jews sure didn’t vote for him. They’ll make sure they win in several key states while everybody’s obsessed with watching Florida, though for reasons of pride I expect they’ll make sure they win in Florida as well.

And that’s not counting the ridiculous, blatantly lying smear campaigns they’ll go on running right up until the election. Every time one begins to lose steam or be too heavily discredited they’ll come up with another one out of left field. Because nobody could ever imagine the chutzpah of these people. They invariably attack a guy on his strongest points. The thing neither he nor anybody else could ever have imagined was a weakness, they’ll come out with wild lies about. As happened to John McCain, Max Cleland, and now John Kerry. And as with Kerry, the media that is supposed to protect our right to know will obediently accept this blatant political maneuvering as interesting and controversial, and give tons of play to it, and make little or no attempt to systematically investigate its truth or falsehood, leaving people with the impression that there must be something in it or they wouldn't promulgate it in that fashion.

The media is the biggest criminal in this whole affair, but that’s not by accident or even their own stupidity. That was carefully engineered by the powers that be some time ago. Honest journalists lose their jobs, like those two who did an expose on Monsanto and BGH (bovine growth hormone) a couple of years ago. I believe they actually worked for Fox. (That's another story for another time.)

I doubt that the Republicans will even find it necessary to have a terrorist attack. They might bring out Osama or some other guy they play up as being the big enemy, but that’s just for fun. I don’t know if they could actually engineer a major attack, but they can easily blow up some little incident (as they’ve been doing all along, grabbing people and waving them around and sticking them in jail [later to be released without fanfare by less party-loyal judges]) or receive some “great intelligence” about an attack, or whatever. Even though lots of people can see through that obvious manipulation, people likely to vote for Bush evidently can’t.

Sometimes it looks as though the Democrats are doing their best to actually help their own defeat along. I doubt this, though there are probably spies and moles and plants in the Democratic party from the other guys. It’s just that these people are not capable of seeing what’s in front of them and what kind of fight they have to put up to have even a chance of winning. Even though millions of their supporters can... Maybe they are throwing the fight, after all. There’s so much truth they don’t reveal. Maybe that will change now that Kerry can spend some money again.

It’s discouraging to see the stupidity, naivete, and utter lack of judgement or ability to observe, of the American public. If even close to half of this country is willing to vote for George Bush, that’s a terrible sign. But in the end it won’t matter. I have a feeling these Bushite characters can turn a landslide around and make it go back uphill.

The long and the short of it is that they do what they want, in broad daylight, and nobody hears about it. Or only a whisper of it. And they don’t find that out until it’s too late to do anything. (Look what happened with Greg Palast’s expose about the 2000 election, nobody in the U.S. would publish it until the election was settled. It’s blatantly criminal.) I just wonder if there will be rioting if Bush “wins.” (I do not believe that he can possibly win fairly. There are a lot of deluded sheep in this country, but I don’t think it’s an actual majority.)

We’ll get a “kinder, gentler” brand of fascism than that of Hitler or Mussolini. At least for a while, for most people. For some, the fascism has already set in. But propaganda is a finer art nowadays than it was back then, although the basic principles haven’t changed. They can make themselves look good (apparently). And remember, for a long time, lots of people both in and out of Germany thought Hitler was just great. Probably lots of people still do. If you changed his name and took away his moustache, and had him do lame wisecracks instead of ranting speeches, even more people would love him. He’s good for the economy, and good for the pride of the German people, and above all, he’s optimistic! And he’s going to get those other guys who are a threat to the German people!

Or maybe we’re really being taken over by an emperor. In ancient Rome, at least they knew they had switched from a republic to an empire. We won’t find out for a while. Maybe once they stop bothering to have more than one party on the ballots.