ich bin traurig

Those of you who listen to my angry ramblings are familiar with my belief that when the 2008 presidential election "happens," a couple of things are likely to occur:

1) The President will scare voters away by leaking "information" to the "media" that "the terrorists" are going to target voting places, encouraging the fearful and weak of spirit to stay home and not vote the criminal incumbent party out of office.

If that doesn't look like it's going to work,

2) The President will declare that national security is so tenuous that America cannot withstand a change of leadership during this "time of war," and refuse to give up the White House, period. The "media" hails Dear Leader as "visionary" and "courageous" as the now-lifetime-appointed Totalitarian Dictator lights a cigar on the burning corner of the Constitution.

Considering this little thought experiment, as I often do while walking to a bus stop/waiting for a bus/riding the bus, I decided that it is unlikely that the President would reject our system of elections. Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Canada (!) probably wouldn't stand for such a reversal of fortune in the world's richest country.

The enlightened wealthy leader class in America is one step ahead of me, though, like it always is. They don't need to revoke elections in order to remain in power in perpetuity.

Diebold can build machines to steal elections, call them "paperless voting machines," and then pay Representative #1, Bob Ney of Ohio, thousands of dollars to write and help pass a law that mandates the use of these election-stealing machines in every precinct in America.

Then they can continue to pay Election Stealer #1 thousands of dollars to ensure that a reform bill with over 100 bipartisan co-sponsors never leaves the committee of which E.S. #1 is the chair.

So now, despite exit polls to the contrary, Republicans can "win" every "election," and nobody can challenge the results because the only company with access to them is Diebold, whose chairman promised to "deliver the election" to President Bush in 2004. Wasn't Ohio the last battleground state? Was it ever really a battleground state? Will it be the last battleground state ever, as every election in America ends 51-49 in favor of the criminal incumbent party?

Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.