Reply #110: HeyManThatsCool, your post here made me cry!

[Peace Patriot]

So many people had this terrible experience including me. Mine went on until about midnight on Nov. 2, by which time I'd figured out pretty much what the BushCons had done, and I felt much better. (I knew something about the electronic voting machines and who owned the secret source code.) I often think of the Kerry voters and volunteers who don't know what happened, and I'm working to inform them. Kerry's concession that night was a further terrible blow. I accepted that it was a wise strategy for a long while, and I have not yet dismissed that possibility entirely. (Jan. 6 will tell!) I also have done some thinking about the BushCons and what they are capable of, and it has given me better human understanding of Kerry, whatever he does.

I just wanted to say that you moved me very deeply. This illusory election was a terrible tragedy in many ways. The American people in fact repudiated Bush and all that he stands for, and they did it resoundiingly (if the truth were known--I think the evidence is overwhelming). And they had that sweet taste of democracy stolen from them, along with their votes. I'm so proud of the American people who saw through all the B.S.

The Evil Media colluded in this crime all along, capped by their falsification of the Exit Polls on everybody's TV screens on Election night. So the bitter truth is that most Kerry voters (including many Republican voters for Kerry) were denied the information they needed to know what really happened, and continue to be ignorant of it because of the Iron Curtain that that same Evil Media has placed on the news about it.

Another tragedy is that I doubt that the unprecedented coalition of grass roots and Dem Party leadership that accomplished this amazing stolen election victory can ever be put back together. It would be put back together if Kerry would come forward now to inform and mobilize the public. My guess is that he isn't going to do that, but well might pursue a long term effort to de-legitimize and disempower Bush & Co.

That is not okay, at this point. This is not any ordinary political thing that is happening. This is our loss of our right to vote, and the end of our democracy. People have a RIGHT to know about this, and to participate in a solution. And there may not be a "long term." The BushCons will surely be emboldened by the lack of opposition to their election crime, as they were in 2000. This calls for opposition NOW. Strong and loud, and unrelenting.

I tend to agree with emillereid that had Kerry been clearer and more articulate about Bush Inc.'s Constitutional outrages and blatant lying and thievery, and had he been more antiwar and more progressive, he may well have won by such a large margin that the BushCons could not have overcome it with election fraud. But both things are speculation--both that he would have won bigger, and that the BushCons wouldn't have stolen it anyway.

But it's a good point--if we have any political future in which to learn from it. I fear that we will not.

Thank you again for your post!