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In reply to the discussion: CODE RED – Computerized Election Theft and the New American Century [View all]Zorra
(27,670 posts)a chance of winning is put into office, Third Way wins. If republicans win, Third Way moves closer to, or maybe even gets, the entitlement (their word, not mine) cuts they promote. They get the war(s) they want. If corporatists Democrats win, they maintain the status quo of the illusion of a national democracy, the status quo of oligarchy, and the status quo of the polarization of wealth. etc. etc.
(Please don't make me get the links where the Third Way promotes all their nasty bullshit, you know they are there, and you must know I have found them before).
Unlike the rest of us, who generally won't profit much, if at all, economically speaking, like the Third Way and Republicans do when a corporatist of either party is elected. The ever increasing polarization of wealth will continue unimpeded no matter which corporatist candidate, "Democrat" or Republican is elected.
If a corporatist Democrat is elected, we will have some social and environmental gains. If a corporatist republican is elected, the world totally goes totally to hell for everyone but the upper classes. Meanwhile, no matter what, the country keeps moving to the right, to the delight of the Third Way, the republicans, and the oligarchs.
Easy-peasy.
Being a member of several minority groups, I have no other sane option, I have to vote for the Democratic nominee, or risk serious hazard to my liberty and health, and the liberty and health of my family and friends. The PTB know that Democrats and left independents, etc have little choice: Either we vote for the Democratic candidate that they choose for us, or we get sociopathic republicans running our country.
I want something more than a Democratic candidate who is chosen for me, something more than a Democrat whose primary function is to maintain and increase the power of corporations and oligarchs to control me and ensure that democracy remains nothing but an illusion. I want the chance to vote for a Democratic candidate who understands what necessary changes must be made, and who will sincerely work to solve the problems that prevent democracy, equality, and justice for everyone, who will work for the people, and not primarily for the oligarchs and their corporations.
And the innate ability to quickly and easily manipulate vote counts with electronic voting machines can prevent those things from ever happening, nip them right in the bud during the nomination process, if the media fails to prevent it in the first line of defense. Electronic voting machine vote manipulation is a "no muss, no fuss" fail safe mechanism by which corporations/oligarchs can prevent democracy, equality, and justice from ever occurring on a national scale in the United States.
So we need to kill these machines, forever, ASAP.
http://struggle.ws/mexico/ezln/1997/jigsaw.html