Reply #202: In the federal government we have one party rule and creeping fascism

[thanatonautos]

So, yes, I want to see the illegitimate
President Bush thrown out of office.

If he is inaugurated in January, I will not
consider him to be legitimately elected.

His election was not legitimate the first time around,
so, he should never have been in the position
to run the second time around.

If Bush serves a second term, make no mistake
about it: it is a major failure of our democracy.
There will for a certainty be very bad consequences.

The Republic may actually already be lost at this
point. We are very possibly seeing the emergence of
something very ugly, something that we last got
a brief glance at during the heyday of the HUAC.
It's hard to say exactly what form American
fascism will take, but we are moving towards
it. It will, no doubt, seem very right and
proper to many, when the full picture is
in view.

Now, I agree with you. Fighting for election
reform is a noble cause, but the time for that
particular sort of nobility may be past.

On the local level, there are still possibilities
for relatively normal circumstances to persist for some
time, and on the local level progressives can fight
for such reforms as they may deem useful. But
in the current environment fighting for election
reform on a national level seems a very hard row
to hoe.

In the long run, one party rule of the type
practiced by the current majority will either erode
democracy down to nothing in all localities, or
it will cause the country to fracture.

I believe it was stated, in Bush v. Gore, in the
majority opinion, that the case is sui generis:

(Paraphrasing from memory)

`Because equal protection in the context of election
processes presents many difficult problems, our
consideration is limited to the present circumstances.'

It is an amazing statement, since the whole
reason for existence of the Supreme court is, precisely,
to set precedent on constitutional questions.

But one sees very quickly why the majority did not
wish to set precedent for lower court decisions
using the particular equal protection argument
that was employed. Namely, it justifies serious
questions about the ridiculous, patchwork voting
system which exists across the nation.

But here's hoping that what I write is no more
than a jeremiad.

Thanks for your outstanding efforts on the
behalf of all of us, however you may see
the cause!