Reply #31: We might want to settle for observations

[PATRICK]

Far from being(at least overtly) a demon cult of fantastic cleverness and invincible webs, the venal, mundane greed blinded, nasty little GOP suffices in matching up exactly what we see happening consistently. Lord knows what lurks behind the secrecy veils and wall of daring crimes. Thinking the worst of the GOP even if it gives them too much credit is something they have well earned and you won't be far off. But, because of the secrecy and much more because of the complicity of media and weak, weak opposition, we will be off almost in direct correlation to our emotions.

They did cheat. They did try to steal. They did use all methods available. It confirms maybe two simple things. When you fight back, it gets beaten down- even if not stopped by plain exposure. It confirms that WE the people are still much much stronger than than these clowns no matter how many institutions are corrupted or tricked- even if the people are not all there in full awareness of what is going on. Join the club, we aren't either, but apparently most of the nation HAS joined the club. We should not be lulled by those things because they are not incredibly strong as they should be to prevent a slide right back into RW clutches behind some bright shiny face who might be able to string pleasant lies together before proceeding to the pillaging.

Vote suppression. Pushing back against the DOJ had some effect. The FBI did not get dragged into it as much as they need. Acorn became the demon du jour anyway, the same screeds employed as in 2004. New things they tried had already been exposed thanks to alert activists. No surprises on that front. No surprises either on vote flipping, making lines difficult, breaking machines, but it seemed reduced in spite of the planned implementation of MORE e-machines and suppression and will be on a steady but very stubborn decline from here on in.

No foreign policy surprise except for small nasty attacks here and there. Things they had to do because we thought they would dare, they did not. Their bluff was called in front and behind the scenes, the money gods caved. It is an incredible shame such frauds, such thieves and liars got away with so much
when pushing back did them in.

Because we fought back, the fear and the scale(whatever its real form while it swelled)receded or was simply overwhelmed, gutted by undeniable public will at its best- if not wisest.

Because we had Obama. Because Hillary helped Obama form a national campaign structure BEFORE the presidential season when the national campaign "gurus" rush in to ruin things. Because Hillary lured the GOP into thinking THEY could capitalize on the negative. Because McCain and his advisers were terrible and the Roves, being fake, fell into another morass like trying to prop up the worst president
ever.

We are back to the simple patterns because the age of the world turned Right-side up has been drowned in failure. Reduced and beaten back and with formidable REAL quality advantages versus REAL undeniable, indefensible failure and crime, we are of a sudden at a new beginning that is no mere campaign slogan,
maybe more true than it was ever in the past.

Between those who were lead to be pessimists(and can't put the brakes on!) and those in denial of the power of fraud lies the experience of how exposed and varied is the cheating the GOP HAD to rely on when all else, even spin was blasted away. it has to go. People were disenfranchised and cheated in numbers too significant to shrug off. "Winning" shouldn't shrug off a dangerous crime that with but a few eventful twists could have left us defeated this fall. We were, by the numbers practically guaranteed Pennsylvania, yet we had to worry about invisible fraud. It must go.

The best way to get at the fraud that attempts to slink away, unchanged, uncharged is to get one big handle on it for immediate action, before the rest of the mess caused by the Coup works to enable a return. The best and simplest, I think, is to get at the root of it all, the way Biden tried to introduce legislation. Campaign finance reform so severe as to sever big money from the scene and enable grass roots representatives of the people a fair route into our government. Maine has been offered as one example. If we do nothing else and all other issues dissolve into an easily delayed stew
that would be the one to get through now- with the first election where people money clout is owed a pricetag.

The next best, before everyone falls to arguing- as in the days when we settled for the imperfect "paper trail" issue- is for comprehensive election protection based on all the wonderful examples of chicanery produced by the GOP. Other issues like the electoral college and run-offs and other fine ideas would be better off flowing naturally from the effects of restored democratic elections.

There was nothing exceptional about the GOP other than their overreaching daring and spite. Our exceptional people are still scrambling uphill against their nasty constant MSM fire. As long as good people, ordinary citizens and truth are exceptional this is obviously NOT the end or even the beginning of change.

Enjoy the elation of another great victory for mankind. Then, let's not ruin the peace with letting the bad guys rebuild. Reforms will force the GOP to field better, more honest candidates such as THEY have been forcing out of their own party recently. It will force Dems to remain progressive amid the temptations of power and their own unfaced imperfections. Taking heads is popular meme here. It won't happen and the opportunity for seizing fundamental change for the future will slip away with it. Concentrating on doing what is right will ironically set the government easily on the confident, unsensational path to grind away at the criminals out of the limelight in a justly businesslike way.