America is fracturing right before our eyes.

[ananda]

7. This is what happens when your country keeps electing..

the lowest common denominator.

When Bush 2 was selected, I was appalled at how
poor a candidate he was... not very smart, a coke
user, and a person with daddy issues latching onto
Dick Cheney to tell him what to dol.

My mother used to call him King George since he
wasn't really elected.

Our electoral system got compromised too, once
Tom Delay set the Brooks brothers on the Dade
county election office.

With Bush 1 I could see the Republican party veerng
to the right. Bush wasn't originally that rightwing, but
he had to move with the party... and that was because
of racism. The Dixiecrats were going Republican now,
and they wanted Civil Rights gone and plutocrats to rule.

It took awhile, but the lowest kept getting lower in the red
states. The were mean and autocratic. Voting rights were
curbed and it became easier to game elections in the former
confederate states.

Then the trend towards racism and autocracy spread to the
rustbelt states, the media moved to the right, and now here
we are being governed by people so low we don't really know
what the bottom is any .more.