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The electoral process has always been corrupt.
Here is the mathematical proof: http://richardcharnin.com/
Some factoids:
- The Democrats won the unadjusted 1988-2008 presidential exit polls by 52-42%, but only by 48-46% in the recorded vote.
- Of the 300 state presidential exit polls since 1988, 137 exceeded the margin of error. Probability ZERO.
- Of the 137 that exceeded the MoE, 132 red-shifted from the Democrat to the Republican. Probability ZERO.
- There were nearly 40 MILLION UNCOUNTED BALLOTS in the 1988-2008 elections. In 1988, nearly 11 million; 1992, 9 million; 1996, 9 million; 2000, 6 million; 2004, 4 million. In 2008, there were 1 million more votes recorded than cast.
- In 2008, Obama won the unadjusted National Exit Poll (17836 respondentsa) by 61.0-37.2%. He won the unadjusted the state exit poll aggregate (83,000 respondents) by 58.0-40.5%. He had 52.9% recorded share. He won by 23 million votes, not the 9.5 million recorded.
- In 2004, Kerry won the unadjusted National Exit Poll (13660 respondents) by 51.7-47.0%. He had 48.3% recorded. He won by 6-10 million votes. He did not lose by the 3.0 million recorded.
- In 2000, Gore won the unadjusted National Exit Poll (13108 respondents) by 50.8-44.5%. He had 48.8% recorded. He won by 6-10 million votes. He did not win by the 540,000 recorded. He did not lose the election.
You get the picture. It happens in every election. The Democrats are obviously complicit in the systemic fraud because they neither say nor do anything about it.
Here is the full set of 1988-2008 election exit poll and recorded vote statistics in one big spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjAk1JUWDMyRdFIzSTJtMTJZekNBWUdtbWp3bHlpWGc#gid=15
Libertarians and Objectivist believe in their mathematical precision of their reason. What they fail to understand is that the universe can not be described by algebra. I always take exception when they try to use the "do you think people are too stupid" argument. The argument works by forcing us to either flatter or ridicule the audience. The truth is, many people are unable to make an intelligent decision due to desperation, unfamiliarity of the issues, gullibility or, in some cases, lack of intelligence.
The people that tend to go to these slimy for-profit schools are people desperate to get a job. Generally, these are kids who have academic challenges. These colleges/trade schools prey on these people, promising the moon for a quick buck.
So, yes, I would say that there are a lot of people who are not wisely agreeing to these loans. The default rate proves it. But of course, Libertarian algebra does not handle concepts like demographics.
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Corruption is the issue, reform is the cure.
Sorry for having to analyze you, Sean O. -- you're just too interesting.
ENTITLEMENTS... ha, that make him suspicious. He wants to cut-cut-cut ENTITLEMENTS. How can anybody claim anything, eh? This is an austerity mind who would cut-cut-cut everything down..... and finally strangle the whole economy. This very much sounds like that neurotic Puritan austerity : work-work-work, but claim nothing. You have only duties and no rights. And then they rub their eyes and wonder where the depression comes from.....
Were your ancestors Puritan immigrants, Sean.O?
And just think, if all that money had been spread out to the American taxpayers, our economy would be in fantastic shape.
Brother Thom,
You speak the truth, despite all the posts here that attempt to obfuscate your message. I tell people who discuss the topic of global warming with me that the main driver of this phenomenon is the current ignorance of human beings of the nature of God's creation (the earth). Because we have lost an understanding of our home, we do things such as use fossil fuels to artificially inflate our population, believing that there will be no repercussions. However, we see these repercussions everywhere - starvation in areas that should be abundant in food, destruction of our sustaining ecosystems and more focus on contolling natural resources than ever before.
When I speak with people who are undecided about what the future brings I try to impress upon them the idea that resources are a zero sum game. I relay to them that we are at the point where any additional birth beyond replacing the original couple is a sentence for suffering and/or death for another child somewhere in the world. Sometimes that makes them stop and think and sometimes it doesn't - It is those in the latter category that trouble me as they appear to ba immune from facts. I think the only way to turn them around is to plop them down smack into any number of populations where people are fleeing their homes because of man-made disasters and have them be one of the "least of these" for once in their lives...
SisterAnnie
LOL, I have always been a continental mind -- historical home base Germany and France. Great Britain seemed always strange to me. I mean, we got a bunch of crazy heritages from U.K., above all the stuffy Protestantism of the Puritanical kind. And this Puritanism was all about work and money -- very materialistic. I think this stingy sparing attitude comes from there as well.
Part of the British attitude is to avoid change and overemphasizing tradition, and this makes them so stiff and inflexible. And it keeps them from learning. They're constantly punishing themselves for being stuffy, stingy and unteachable, although Keynes was one of them. As long as they don't get it, they're really supposed to fail and repeatedly feel the pain, until they might learn it.....
Our GOP shows that stuffy old British attitude too. Gingrich's claim, "We speak English in America", might have been an effort to define the U.S. British. But thanks God, America is built on several other European traditions as well -- above all France and Germany.
The British refusal to join the Euro is part of their unconvincable character. This always seemed very odd to me and was the reason why I concentrated on continental history, pretty much avoiding England. I strongly feel like this English heritage is an unhealthily foolish part of our American tradition.
Hind sight is always 20/20, but only matters when we apply what we have learned!
Countries uneasy, feeling betrayed. We the people are paying for the mistakes others have made. The time is comming for us to realize we must break out from these corrupt government ties. We must resist the urge for power. Who can you trust? Who is in control? History shows us that all governments do decline; from healthy ideas which in time are tread upon. Let us begin to learn from the mistakes of the past. Change our way of thinking so people and planet will last. We must resist the urge for power. Who can you trust ?Who is in control?
This is not surprising. In fact, it is that "entitlements" that the government obviously cannot afford that will get any country in some serious financial trouble. It is amazing how so many people think that depending on a government to fill your needs instead of working for it yourself is a good thing.
There are people who truly believe that depending upon fresh games is the way to prosperity when they don't realize that it is really a prison.
IANACS*, but I've been studying the global warming issue from a layman's perspective for some time, including online discussions with actual climate scientists. The impression I get is that it's too late for us, partly because the denier movement has succeeded in slowing down our reaction to the problem, and partly because things are much, much worse and happening much, much faster than predicted. We basically have less than 5 years to stop the temperature rise from exceeding 2 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels. That not only means changing the minds of the deniers and interference-runners like Sen. Inhofe, but getting everyone else re-aligned to accomplishing that goal. Heck, even Obama doesn't mention the problem any more. The Republican debates were completely devoid of any climate change questions, and we know Mitt Romney will be a complete and utter Stepford-Wife tool of the corporatocracy. No, Thom, in my amateur but studied opinion, as you say, "we're screwed."
*I Am Not A Climate Scientist
The corruption and predation of America's corporatism is the democratic result of 99% of voters voting for it — the corporate party's Republican and Democrat sheeple regularly reliably obediently flocking to the polls to only ever vote for whichever of the two money manufactured interchangeable-part "electable" evil candidates they believed might do evil unto others... instead of them.
Don't like the result of getting nothing but evil done unto yourself too, because you always "this election is too important to not vote for evil" voted for more evil?
Join the people who've always been voting for good to be done!
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Why do we have austerity everywhere?
Because they think this is what works?
Beliefs create behaviors our behaviors create our on the ground experience .
Our founding fathers created the two party system because they said having a third party will mean the majority can never rule.....you wind up with a coalition government ruling by consensus. Just look to France, Italy, etc., which have multiple parties....no party gets a majority; rule is always by 20% or 30% of the electorate (if they're lucky).
OldCrone and John Lemessurier: You're sure not alone on this issue. I suspect there are quite a few people who consider themselves somewhere in the vicinity of Progressive Democrats who voted for Obama the first time but are totally pissed at what Obama has done..or what he hasn't done. Obama is ever much the war criminal that Bush was and is a very dangerous man...and so was Hitler.
Dare I compare him to Hitler? Hitler only had gas, ovens, and IBM tabulating cards to murder millions of innocent people. He didn't have the technology of drones, guided, aimed, and triggered by people that are sitting in comfort in locations in the US as if they were playing a computer game. He didn't have the massive computerized world-wide spy network to determine who would be wiped out. And so, since mass murder has become so easy and covert and done without the killers having to actually see, smell, and experience what they have done it is a trifle matter to them. And add to that a dose of psychological masturbation with Jesus as the pivot man crap that they now brainwash our soldiers with...it is so easy to do just what Hitler did and avoid all of the guilt and shame. And since the conquerors, most vicious, and most devious, write the history books...it may be a long time...like never...until these Sieg Heil Nazis will ever suffer the wrath that they so rightly deserve.
And as those armed drones are flying over the people in the Middle East, they will eventually be deployed right here in America in search of what a few Hitlerian wannabes deem as a "terrorist"...and as we know...that word is very loosely applied. Careful what you think or say...you, or I, could be next on their hit list.
Just wait for the day when the state will put life-time implants into new borns that will have multi-functions including: tracking his/her location and detecting any evil or anti-state thoughts which will terminate that life form where ever he/she is. They will, at first, justify the implants as a means of preventing kidnapping or some other reason. And, in order to get people sufficiently set-up and malleable into accepting this...they will have agents commit massive kidnappings and blame it on whatever group they want to defame at the moment...sell them to some rich Saudi Sheik. You know, create the false flag operation, like 911, that has worked so well at putting people off-guard and acceptable to things they would not otherwise accept.
As long as the conservative christians, who run this country, continue with their "God will provide" attitude, there is no hope of saving the planet or the human race. Since I have little time left on this planet, I say let them keep their heads buried in the sand, it makes it that much easier for reality to bite them in the ass!!! And it will, too.
We have the kind of government we deserve due to our civic engagement and participation. If we continue thinking that nothing can be done about our democracy, nothing will be done! I truly believe that each one of us can make a difference, it is our responsibility to emit our vote and hold people accountable. We are in the situation we are in, because we accepted it due to our distractions placed before us through the television, movies, etc, we should have seen it but it just took so much effort and there are the consequences. We must not give up, we are the 99%!
NO !
Beyond corrupt.
I feel like many must have felt just prior to the fascists propping up the Nazis in a recovering Germany.
I don't know why the DNC (or other progressive) doesn't simply show in an ad contrasting the two visions being sold today.
Just think...on the right would be the stark reality (actually a scorched earth) resembling Chernobyl: people in tatters, on the streets, sick and dying.
And even though the momentum hasn't brought us total recovery as yet (only one term); the left would envision celebrating families, happy students, healthy citizens with busy, vital roads, bridges, damns, schools and more.
The comparison is stark, but reality. Which best serves our (and NOT trans-national corporations) needs?
Should those with the (very) deep pockets end up buying this election; and the neo-con brain trusts infiltrate and corrupt the local, county, state and federal governments…I believe I just might depart…as the smart ones did as Nazi Germany took shape.
Thanks for allowing me to vent.
Lee
Well, to the actual POINT of Thom's post, my answer is "NO!" it's already too late if the decrease in sea ice at the Arctric is opening the Northwest Passage.
Once Siberia's permafrost starts melting, it will be just an endless, self-perpetuating carbon release. We won't be able to stop it, although I'm sure that something even worse will be tried.
I have to faith whatsoever in in patriarchal science which allows men to leap where angels would fear to tread. They have absolutely no respect for life and the Earth and they use their religion to justify everything.
My only hope for the future of this planet is that it really is the cahnging of the Ages from Pisces to Aquarius, the social sign. Perhaps the elites WILL find a habitable palent they can take their exlated selves off to and leave the rest of us to try a differnt way of living.
You can be sure, however, that they will suck every last drop of energy from Gaea before they go.
Idiots! They'll look long and hard before they find a jewel like this one in the gallaxy and tehy'll probably fight with each other to be alpha male on the way and kill each other off. Then, maybe the less agressive males and the women can form a society in the stars that make some sense, cause this one sure doesn't.
You can bet this is why the War on Women is gearing up. They know the population they can exploit iof going to srop off precipitiously here pretty soon and they want more peons to rob and enslave.
P: this really need s spell checker that works