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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ksuave who wrote (13974)	11/12/2000 9:26:29 PM
From: Catfish	Respond to of 13994

Democrats try totalitarian‘voting’ methods to win by Gerard Jackson TNA News with Commentary Monday 13 November 2000 It takes few powers of observation to notice that the pernicious totalitarian doctrine of the General Will is being insinuated into the American election by the Democrats, especially by the notorious Bill Daley of Cook County Illinois where even the dead have the vote. Now the General Will does not mean the majority rules, as many mistakenly think. It basically means the moving spirit of the people, their real interests and welfare, which because of ignorance, stupidity or false consciousness they cannot perceive for themselves. Enter the omniscient elite who, by means known only to themselves, are the only ones able to divine the General Will. Alas, this is how it was in the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, and still is in Cuba and North Korea. “You’re too harsh, Jackson”, you might retort. “The Democrats are only playing hardball, playing to win.” If that were only true it would be bad enough. But the actions and statements of far too many Democrats leads to my conclusion. Bill Daley claims the "technicalities should not determine the president of the United States: the will of the people should." That those technicalities are constitutional rules causes him no concern. And this helps to underline my point, which was further strengthened by Daley and Ron Klain’s claim that they know what the true intent was of those in Palm Beach who didn’t vote for Gore. Bill Daley believes, as did his father, that the only vote that truly expresses the will of the people is a Democrat’s vote. That is the fundamental reason why Daley senior rigged elections in Cook County, and that is why the Democrats are heavily involved electoral malpractices, none of which they consider immoral. To them, if too many people are stupid enough to vote for the Republicans, then measures are justified in countering the negative effects of those votes. Nothing must thwart the General Will. Let me try to clarify this further. Gore stated that he would stand by the results. When it went against him in Florida by a slim margin a recount was automatically ordered. Fair enough. When that went against him he abandoned his previous ethical stand and called in his lawyers. He had the General Will on his side and the ‘popular’ vote proved it. But did it? First, his margin on the so-called ‘popular vote’ is so small at writing, less than 0.2 per cent, that it is a worthless statistical figure when one considers electoral errors, ‘irregularities’, and the Democrats’ shenanigans in general, not to mention the absentee votes that have yet to be counted. More importantly, neither Gore nor Bush ran their campaigns to maximise the ‘popular vote’ — they ran them to maximise the electoral college vote but because that’s how American presidents are elected. Now Gore and Daley not only know that all too well, they also know that the ‘popular vote’ is only a secondary consequence. If the Founding Fathers had wanted a first past the post system, as it is called in Australia and Britain, they would have said so and acted accordingly. Instead they carefully crafted a process that was the antitheses of what Gore, Daley, Klain and their media lackeys are demanding because they knew exactly where the notion of the General Will would lead. Nevertheless, Gore and Daley invoke the notion of the Will, ’disguised as the ’popular vote’, to delegitimise Bush’s success. But vote-rigging by Democrats amply demonstrates how the Will is to be defined. (Ironically, Gore and Clinton might find themselves hoist with their own petard if Bush eventually ends up with a majority of the vote.) The late Professor Isaiah Berlin indignantly described the fundamental political beliefs of the power-hungry Gores, Daleys and Klains as a “monstrous impersonation.” (Two Concepts of Liberty). He was damn right. Note: Throughout the article I enclosed the term popular vote in inverted commas. This was done because neither candidate received a majority of the votes, any more than Clinton did in 1992 when he only got about 41 per cent of the vote. newaus.com.au