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Rove has gone beyond politics as America has ever seen it. The rethugs have decided they're going to win at any cost. They're using rank fear and abject panic with exaggerated, perfectly timed alerts. They're pressuring other countries to time their military and economic operations to more efficiently get votes over here. They've planned their convention to exploit America's nightmarish memory of September 11 . They're putting out bogus polls.They're spending the GDP of several small countries to continuously run provably misleading attack ads. They're announcing a second term agenda that they know will never happen--that they will make sure will never happen. They're trying to rig the election in a swing state like some third world dictatorship with voting roll purges and paperless machines. They've recruited a couple of visible Dems to carry their water, most likely with promises of powerful positions in the second term. Any Duer could add to this list.
And the media, from FOX to the "librul" NY Times has crossed the line between looking the other way and taking an active supporting role.
This is not conspiracy theory. This is fact: Predicted, reported, sourced, and proved right here on DU, by the foreign press, and and by the few remaining journalists left in America.
The loyal opposition is faced with a choice: stand up and fight or let themselves--and their country--get steamrolled. So far the signs are not good. Aside from a few isolated, unorganized voices the Democratic party is silent about every item listed above. Case in point: The Senate Minority Leader has been a non-entity in this election, and will be until election day. And you can go down the list from there.
I'd castrate myself with a plastic fork to be wrong, folks, but the way things have been going, the Dem leadership, strategists, and press operatives are going to have to undergo a sea change to save America. Do they have it in them?
We rank and file dems are going to have to do their work for them, like parents of helpless children. We have to double our efforts. That way, if we lose, at least we'll be able to say we stood up and fought.
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