Florida legislature set precedent in 2000. Vulnerable to dictatorship.

[madfloridian]

I posted this great article earlier, someone started on the blame game, and I deleted. This is a serious matter. I doubt many who voted for Bush are on this board. Most of here have been working hard to fix our state, but our own Democrats often work against us. They benefit from the GOP here, and they actively work against change. This can be fixed but not as long as the Democrats here don't stand up.
Don't get me wrong, a few do. Not many.
If this turns into a Florida bashing thread I will just delete it again.

http://www.sptimes.com/2004/09/12/Columns/Americans_in_danger_a.shtml
Americans in danger are vulnerable to dictatorship

By MARTIN DYCKMAN, Times Columnist
Published September 12, 2004

TALLAHASSEE -SNIP..." A thousand dead in Iraq. For what? History's highest budget deficit. For what? George W. Bush has been so reckless with America's lives, wealth and reputation and so stupendously incompetent and untrustworthy overall as to defy belief that anyone but Halliburton and the House of Saud would want him to be elected.

And yet, if the polls are accurate, Bush is leading. Dismal as that news may be, what's more to be feared is the reason. Though they see through him in nearly every other respect, many people are convinced of his leadership, his courage, his sense of resolve.

The "man on horseback" mentality, the belief that a leader's strength is more important than where it leads them, defines a population that is vulnerable to dictatorship...."

SNIP..." Dictatorship has struck even in the absence of danger. Right here, in Florida.

In December 2000, the Florida House of Representatives, in broad daylight, voted 79 to 41 to steal the 2000 presidential election by formally appointing the Republican slate of electors regardless of what a recount might show. Though presumptively legal under the Constitution, that was a dictatorial act in light of the modern expectation that the people, not the politicians, elect the president....."

SNIP..."a precedent was set for use in the next state where one party controls both houses and opportunity knocks...."

[Dudley_DUright]

1. No bashing here MF

since I posted the same article in the editorials forum. :-)

[madfloridian]

2. Thanks, did not see it.

It is a good article.