Long Center for the Performing Arts
What the Hell Is Wrong With the Democrats?
RECEIVED Mon., May 24, 2004
Chron,
I wish there were a less rude way to ask, but I seriously would like to know: What the hell is wrong with Democrats? Do you people have something wrong with your brains, or have the Republicans finally installed orbital mind-control lasers? Did Ralph Nader egg your car?
The election in Florida was rigged, people. Rigged. Maybe you didn't notice? Dubya's brother was governor and his campaign manager was secretary of state, polling stations in minority districts were moved without notice, and several ballot boxes are still missing. Nevertheless, Gore won the damn vote in Florida, even with Nader in the race, but Bush is resident now because Clarence Thomas' wife was on his campaign staff and Antonin Scalia's son was one of his lawyers.
God bless Nader. He's been a tireless consumer advocate for half a century, but he is politically irrelevant. While organized Republicans are goose-stepping their way into power, Democrats will only line up to take shots at an unelectable Nader; trying to organize them for anything else is like herding cats.
Do you just not want to admit that it can happen here, that banana-republic election fraud is possible in America? That didn't help Democrats put Samuel Tilden into office in 1877, and it didn't help Gore in 2000 either. Is pretending that fascism could never take over worth sitting around and wringing your hands while it does? Climb up off your own high-horses and start going after the Republicans!
I wish there were a less rude way to ask, but I seriously would like to know: What the hell is wrong with Democrats? Do you people have something wrong with your brains, or have the Republicans finally installed orbital mind-control lasers? Did Ralph Nader egg your car?
The election in Florida was rigged, people. Rigged. Maybe you didn't notice? Dubya's brother was governor and his campaign manager was secretary of state, polling stations in minority districts were moved without notice, and several ballot boxes are still missing. Nevertheless, Gore won the damn vote in Florida, even with Nader in the race, but Bush is resident now because Clarence Thomas' wife was on his campaign staff and Antonin Scalia's son was one of his lawyers.
God bless Nader. He's been a tireless consumer advocate for half a century, but he is politically irrelevant. While organized Republicans are goose-stepping their way into power, Democrats will only line up to take shots at an unelectable Nader; trying to organize them for anything else is like herding cats.
Do you just not want to admit that it can happen here, that banana-republic election fraud is possible in America? That didn't help Democrats put Samuel Tilden into office in 1877, and it didn't help Gore in 2000 either. Is pretending that fascism could never take over worth sitting around and wringing your hands while it does? Climb up off your own high-horses and start going after the Republicans!
Jason Meador
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