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babylonsister
Hello Babylonsister.. Have been just lurking around here for a while, trying to figure out your elections, it is so confusing to not be "part" of the system, and try to understand it all. Maybe it is somewhat the same if you was to try to understand the norwigian election system.. Even tho I doubt Norway have some interest in the world at a whole. US is more interesting that way than little Norway I guess... I have also had little energy to write here, as I have had some problems with my healt lately, a lot of pain, but it looks like it is on track now,Hopefully I can wisit home later today, to wisit my old folks;). And have some real homemade food, food never taste as it does home I guess... Even after many year on my own, the best food, is what I get "home" with the old folks... I know, wierd but its is like that for me..
I hope, really hope that most of the tea party candidates would never be elected into office anynear power, they are a real danger to the world... And to US. Last time around, in 2008, you allmoust shot yourself in the foot, but you managed to wote a man into office who was more sane than the republican option. Even tho the "amazing stuff" have fallen of him by now, he is still, the best hope we all have for the moment. No right wing Republican Party near the while house for a while Im afraid. As Obama so suble put it once, the car is a wreck, and he is trying his best to nugde it off the cliff, and repair the damage.. YOu wil need a lot of progresive democratic presidents before the nuclear chatastrofe what was Bush JR can be undoed, and I am little afraid that many americans dosen't se it that way.. My humble guess, is that it wil take at least 2 decades with hard work, from democratic presidents to rebuild US up to something it was before GWB got into office.. Everyone who have trying to rebuild a house, know, that to crash a house, you need a day, but to rebuild it, it can take weeks, maybe months to get everything togheter again.. The same is the case with US.. It took GWB just 8 year to more or less ruin US, but it wil take Obama, and other democratic presidents a decade or two just to get US on the right track to recovery.. And firstmost US have to get out of Iraq and Afghanistan, to save the money you for the moment is spending there.. Now even Russia want to get into the fry - again, I guess the generals dosen't learned last time that it is no way to fight the afghans, if you are not willing to use all nessesary metodes to crush the enemy, but this time, at least, CIA are not out there, given the "freedomfighters" the lastest stinger missiles to shoot aircrafts down anymore.. I I had 24 hour to be top advisor to the US president, my best advice would be to leave Afghanistan, and Iraq, and to just tear down the bases who had been build there, and let them fight themselfs out. It is cruel I know, but I am afraid the "democracy" idea mr Bush was telling about is dead, and burried for a long time now. The realites on the ground is that in Afghanistan, the talibans, and also other groups, many official parts of the government of mr Karzai would be really happy to kill as many NATO/US forces as posible, and the best strategy would be to leave the area once and for all.. In Iraq, the case is little more troublesome, but the general idea would be to leave Iraq, maybe give them equipment so they can defend their own borders and so one, but to get the soldiers out of there. I doubt Iraq is able to have a stable democracy anytime more, if US was to leave, the regime of today wil be topled, and a national government, ruled by a dictator would size power, More than posible a Shia muslim, even maybe a cleric for what I know.. In 1953, when Iraq had a king, and democracy, US and British interest killed the king (a mear boy) and put in a dictator.. After that it have going downhill... TO expect Iraq to come a democracy after 60 year of tyranny and different sorts of dictatorship is just stupid.. Even germany and Japan had at least experience with real democracy between the world wars, when US occupied them both (in germanys case, with the help of the britsh and the france) and both of them is today democratic comunities.. That is not the case in Iraq, who even in 1953, was just in the starting block to a posible democracy.. And the way US have worked the occupaying in Iraq since 2003, I doubt Iraq would be a democracy anytime soon.. The experience have not been to pleasing I guess... But this was a disgress from what I was writing about I guess.. .
And as you put it, most of them got money from the outside, to make up for real politic.. I can't understand why it is even alowed to give forreign contebrutions to political parties in US, to innflucense, and dominate the political landscape in US. In most other country, if that is been the case, all type of hell would be loose, and the lucy one would posible just loose the election, in some country they might be hang... Or at least face prosecution for their crimes.. Many times I would have given a few bucks to a worthy cause in US, but I am not sure about if it is allowed to do that, so I have not been doing it, not that I can give to mutch anyway, but you understand I guess;)
I hope not mainstream americans wil follow this pepole and let their voice be more than what they alleready is.. But as I might have told many times lately, after GWB I am not sure about what american do, and not are doing, it looks like most of the country got into a mental meltdown specially after sept 11 2001. And I know from experience that it takes time to recover from a mental meltdown, but the loonies on the right, is just showing up, and showing up, and showing up in a number I have never been aware of in US lately... And what I know from DU, is just the top of the iceberg, thousands, maybe houndred of thousands others, who never get to public, are out there, lurking in the shadow, just waiting for the next time around... Thats is really scary...
I wil try my best to share your wiew, that we have not to give up hope for you yet. But I would say it wil take years before the madness of King George Bush Jr is fixed, maybe a decade or two, just to get the ship to listen to the comands... Your economy is more or less in ruins, the poor have been many, and the top 1 percent of the american population have most of the power.. But you have to rembember one thing. You outnumber them many times, and US started with an revolution, you might have to give them a leasson that you still have the power to make a revolution.. Please wote the right way, vote progresives, and make us all hope for the best after thuesday. And hopefully they also count all votes..
This eletronic voting stuff, should be stoped as a real stupid idea, paper ballots have allways worked, why change something that work, with a system that is full of flaws.. At least the programs have to be far more safeproof than today... Even my 13 year nephew can breake into this type of programs and making a lot of mess with it all.... And he is just an ordinary boy, with medium interst in computers.. Mostly to play games and chat with friends...
Diclotican
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