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In reply to the discussion: No Republican president since Eisenhower has been legitimately elected, says Thom Hartmann [View all]merrily
(45,251 posts)Democrats yelled foul loud and long after both Gore and then Kerry lost. Democrats controlled both houses in 2006. Waxman held hearings in which testimony proved machines could easily be hacked. But that was the end of it. Republicans were not even put to the trouble of voting against a bill.
As a result, the point seemed to me to be to convince America that the Republicans had stolen the elections--and they well may have--but not to really, you know, do anything about preventing such things in the future. Why? If only Republicans steal elections, why not enact legislation with long prison terms and other safeguards?
We HAVE to stop thinking that every thing is totally one-sided. That may be great for professional politicians and their shills to have us do, but demonizing only one side and sanctifying the other has not been doing the general population much good for at least a few decades.
You are not rooting on the home baseball team here. This is not the century old Red Sox v. Yankees rivalry. It's our lives and the lives of our kids and their kids.
ETA: Before some maroon starts deflecting, no, I never said both sides are equally bad.