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Let's get back to Left Wing Stuff
I am so sick of Gore being portrayed as desperate. It's not f'n desperation. It's determination, dedication. He's acting like a guy who fights for what's right. He's fighting for the will of the people to be revealed definitivelly. He owes it to us to fight. He knows he risks ridicule. We are letting him down by not being more vociferous in our support. This should be reciprocal. He wages war, we holler and scream and protest, and support him in every way until he decides to quit, even as we rally round him, so he can save face. He should appear to be pushed up and supported by the outraged majority who voted for him, not left to look as if he is desperately clawing his way up through those more vocal fascists.
So Bush is happy to win by technicality. 200 year old technicality, but nothing to be proud of. He feared the proposed total recount in Florida because it might take even that technical win away. So even if it is a technical wn, he wants it. He doesn't care. He rides the status quo, as if it were his right, and riducules the people's choice as a sore loser. The monarchy is inherited. He seems to feel entitled. His smirk suits a spoiled brat king.
The repubs aren't quitting cause they're tired and want it to be over. People used to wait months to find out election results, but we want immediate gratification. Where is our sense of outrage? Gore won the popular vote, and Gore may well have won Florida. Even if Bush takes Florida, he only wins the electoral by two electoral votes. If the electors thought there is enough outrage out here, perhaps a couple would feel the urge and justification to vote for the will of the majority which was GORE FOR PRESIDENT in 2000.
Even if we accept the outcome of this election, why are we not already screaming about standards for future elections? That the electoral college system is obsolete, or for a standardized ballot or electronic ballots, or synchronous closing of the polls, or prohibition of states being called before all polls close? Why are we not demanding that our respective states divide the electoral votes next time round as Maine (?) does? Why are we just rolling over? Where is our outrage???? WE WON THE POPULAR VOTE GODAMMIT, THIS CANNOT HAPPEN AGAIN! |
