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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Vote
http://commondreams.org/views/2016/04/20/when-they-come-our-vote?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetworkWhen they come for our vote
By Hank Edson
People supporting Hillary Clinton often compare the Bernie or Bust movement to Ralph Naders third party campaign in the 2000 election, angrily accusing Sanders supporters in advance of handing the election to the Republican Partys worst candidate ever. But a progressive challenge to the Democratic Partys weak nominee is not the aspect of the 2000 election that ought to be remembered in 2016.
What should be remembered is the failure of Al Gore to fight against the political corruption in Florida, the GOP, and the Supreme Court. Florida, the GOP, and the Supreme Court stole the presidency from Al Gore and he never should have conceded the election, not even when two corrupt Supreme Court justices, Scalia and Thomas, failed to properly recuse themselves from participating in the hearing of Bush v. Gore, and the Supreme Court mangled the law in order to put their political preference in the White House, the integrity of our democracy be damned.
Gore's decision to give up did not turn out to be, as he hoped, for the good of the country. We paid dearly for our failure and for Gores failure to keep fighting. We should have been out in the streets. We should have surrounded the Supreme Court with tens of thousands of protesters. We should have demanded impeachment hearings for Scalia and Thomas. We should have demanded executive branch action from Bill Clinton. Had we stopped what we were doing, filled the streets of our nation and refused to go about business as normal, more than a million people would not have been killed in the Iraq War. Just think of that. It sounds extreme, but where is the line when theft of the people's government requires the citizenry to stand together to stop it? What consequences must we face before we demand unambiguous integrity in our political process?
Instead, of taking a stand in 2000, we allowed a coup détat, a forced takeover of the peoples democracy. We sat by and watched. And we know what ensued: Manufactured evidence to drive our nation into am imperialistic war of aggression littered with every kind of war crime, more than a million dead, and the funneling of trillions of dollars of our tax payers' wealth into the industrial-arms complex. We had a right to stop society still in its tracks for as long as it took for justice to prevail and our vote to be restored. We, and Gore, preferred not to fight and this is the mistake we must learn from.
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The Vote (Original Post)
G_j
May 2016
OP
And, quite frankly, it's being set up the same way for this election........
socialist_n_TN
May 2016
#3
NewImproved Deal
(534 posts)1. Gore was a Mediocre candidate, but it was "His Turn".
Sound familiar?
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2naSalit
(86,536 posts)2. I suspect
that he was more interested in continuation of his life given the cabal he was up against, we only saw what we were allowed to see of that mess.
socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)3. And, quite frankly, it's being set up the same way for this election........
With HRC's weak numbers against Trump, this election could EASILY be stolen even if she actually wins. Remember if it's PERCEIVED to be close, then the right-wing Republicans will steal it and the right-wing Democrats will blame Bernie and his supporters for ALLOWING it to be stolen, thereby preventing any sort of coordinated action to protest it.