[TheForge] Stupid comments

Tue Apr 30 08:46:01 2002

'Course, being of liberal bent (meaning, I don't judge a book by its =
cover, like so many folks out there do) I tend to see things a bit =
differently.  Remember that on popular vote, Gore WON the election.  It's =
only because of the way things are counted up that he lost. =20

Meanwhile, don't start throwing the "dead vote" at me.  The transgressions =
I see have more to do with off-duty white police officers guarding the =
polls from blacks in the urban NJ area, this in the year the democratic =
gubinatorial candidate lost by 2% of the vote.   A lot of people were =
defranchized in the last presidential election too.  Guess who.  Why don't =
we just bring back poll tax and be "honest" about it?

Meanwhile, you can rely on the fact that we have the best politicians in =
Washington that Oil money can buy.

You know the definition of an honest Texas politician, don't you:  Once =
bought he stays bought!

Bruce
NJ

>>> "Jeff Harding" <[email protected]> 04/30/02 08:08AM >>>
Here, Here!!   Care to run in the next election?

   You are completely right.  The demographics from the last election
show that the "conservative majority" are too busy to vote.  Gore
nearly won by taking the metropolitan areas, while G. carried 80% of
the counties nation wide.  What do you suppose would happen if just 10
more conservatives per county would vote?

   And while we are on it, by what stretch of the imagination is it,
that we are not "shut down" as a country for 8 hours on an election
day, so no one has anything else to do?  Keep people busy and vote for
dead people and let drunks vote in numerous precincts... sounds
familiar...

.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Vida" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 9:05 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Stupid comments

>
>
> Jeff Harding wrote:
> >
> > I won't go along with that... "They" are usually the lesser of
evils,
> > and not much "less".
>
> To a degree I can agree with you, but in the end it is indeed
> our collective fault.  As has been duly noted, this republic
> is NOT se'f regulating and freedome is not self assuring.  We
> have to be willing to threaten the government with physical
> force, if necessary, in order to keep them walking the straight
> and narrow.  There aren't enough Americans willing to do this.
> Without critical mass, we are neutered.
>
> How can anyone expect serious and meaningful change from a
> nation whose population is primarily concerned with who won
> the Stupor Bowl and who's screwing Britney Spears?  That is
> pathetic and the world laughs at us (believe me, I have
> relatives in far flung corners of the world and they all
> say that we are the butt of many cruel jokes).
>
> Until sufficient numbers of people are willing to make a noise
> to get things moving in a right direction, nothing will change.
> Expecting otherwise it like going to a casino and expecting the
> game to fall in your favor.  It's stacked against you.
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