Sucking Democracy Dry: The End of Democracy

[NVMojo]

Well written piece ...but true, unfortunately....

Losing America's birthright, the George Bush way
October 19th, 2004 10:40 AM

"Yet the "process," by many accounts, is not just broken but shattered, intentionally ground into dust by Karl Rove and his Republican campaign machine. "What these guys do every day, as a matter of course, without thinking twice about it, would be dramatic transgressions even under Nixon," Jeff Shesol admits from his Dupont Circle office, crowded with paraphernalia from Democratic triumphs past. He's just amazingly quick to dismiss the notion that there's anything a Democratic presidential campaign can do about it. "It is very hard for most people to look at Bush and see him as an extremist," he says. "It is very hard to make that charge stick to a guy who seems so down-home, so commonsense, such a decent man."

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http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0442/perlstein.php

[Kenneth ken]

1. grand.

thanks for depressing the heck out of me. It is worth reading though, so thanks for posting.

[G_j]

2. this is an important article

thanks