Quote from fluctuator:
please elaborate.
(I think you may be letting the recent "scandals" effect your metaphors)
the way the 2000 election turned out is the first
thing that comes to my mind. real democratic
attitude would have been to set everything on
hold until the true election result was obtainable.
and in case this would have been impossible to
re-elect. the cost of damage to the credibility to
the system as such outweighs every dollar spend
for this process. the powermen decided otherwise.
victory, even by sacrificing the prey, democracy,
was the only target.
the war in iraq. within a very, very short period
of time the administration identified the people
who "did" it. all the intelligence failed consequently
but at the moment when an enemy needed to
be created, it was perfect in a second. oil-saddam-
911 is a scandal in itself. and just think of the
money spent. the same gang of people in congress
who avoided ratifying kyoto like hell. if they were
making their money on alternative energies they
would have doubled all kyoto efforts.
a difficult thing for me to judge is the 2004
campaigning. these swift boat people seem to be
quite convincing. i am not sure if this can really
be made up by the reps. but this flip flopping
campaign was an unprecedented provocation.
i do not dare to really judge kerry. but i certainly
have not the slightest doubt that mr bush is a
political desaster. this is the best leading person
in america? the ultimate leader of a nation of
hundreds of millions of people?
the alliance with christian fundamentalists that
make laws to teach children about dinosaurs
6000 years ago. george bush bombed his own
country back a thousand years when these
things were believed. the rest of the world is
shocked in shere disbelief by the american way
of denial.
this thing of trying to lift your own lawyer into
some sky of justice. the list goes on and is not
only a shame but a threat to the whole world.
george bush is a bigger danger to the world than
al qaeda could ever have been. there is civil war
right now in the country he liberated at the
expense of life and huge sums of money. just
consider what could have been done with these
funds.
i am usually really not a fanatic, certainly not a
political one, and even more certainly not a left
wing socialist or communist of any kind. but this
administration is ... a danger to mankind. corrupt
and dumb. and i hope that a time will come where
such people are not protected by US almight but
will be taken to court and help god will be treated
fairly. but will be taken there to show that democracy
is not a free lunch if you win elections and control
some media.
you think you live in a democracy? i would not be
so sure. you think you are the goods against the
axes of evil? i think that this is top down propaganda,
nothing more. america has been doing "evil" (what
a word btw ...) on many circumstances over decades.
until america does not understand that the life of
a civilian in bagdad is as worthy as that of the people
in WTC, until it understands that they have no right
to set up something like guantanamo, until it
realises that torture is an absolute no everywhere
any time ... until then you have no right to point
at anyone else. no right. and no credibility when
you in spite of your own doing do so.
) come Tuesday and it would not surprise me at all to see them lose the House and the Senate by wider margins than are now being expected.