The Long Road to Fascism

The Samuel Alito nomination will no doubt stand as an important footnote in the history books that may one day cover the slide of the United States into a fascist state.  While civil libertarians have fretted over the threat Alito poses to individual freedoms, the truth is that the fate of our country has been sealed ever since the fraudulent election of 2000 - a dress rehearsal for the ultimate farce, the 2004 election.  Yet, the blatant nature of these twin frauds are unsurprising given the delusional thinking that afflicts America.  The collective failure of this nation to detect such a poorly concealed theft is endemic of exactly the type of delusional thinking that would lead some people to deny the crisis of Peak Oil, to attempt to establish a theocracy to replace a representative republic, or to host a political convention in Las Vegas.

The fraudulent nature of the 2000 election was so laughably obvious that even those sheeple taking the greatest dose of American Exceptionalism meds were forced to admit that Bush did not win the election, but won on a technicality.  These folks chalk it up to either to a bad Supreme Court decision or "problems" (translation: election theft) with the voting systems, primarily the oh-so-difficult butterfly ballot.  

jem6x had quite an excellent diary covering the 2000 fraud in Florida:

A total of 46,000 uncounted overvotes unambiguously for Gore and 17,000 of them unambiguously for Bush.  If I understand this correctly, this means that Gore won the state not by a few hundred or a thousand votes, but by approximately 30,000 votes.  It wasn't even close.  (Of course, that is without accounting for the butterfly ballot or the African-American non-felons illegally purged from the voter list.)

The fascists, masquerading as Republicans, assured the sheeple that electronic voting would certainly fix all that.  However, as we should all be well aware, electronic voting only makes stealing elections all that much easier.  Yet even the author of the excellent diary detailing the 2000 election farce seems only willing to chalk up the result as a "disaster" rather than calling it what could euphemistically be described as electoral engineering.

Emboldened by the success of the 2000 fraud, the fascists engaged in nationwide election fraud in 2004.  The fraud was easily detectable by the exit polls, which showed huge pro-Bush discrepancies in key swing states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida, among others.  Stephen Freeman, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, stated this in his study of the 2004 election:

Although exit polls have never been academically studied, both the logic behind them and experience suggest that we can use these surveys to predict overall results with very high degrees of certainty.

The likelihood of such results being so far outside the margins of error is, quite simply, statistically impossible.  Freeman is careful to avoid any direct accusations, letting the reader draw his or her own conclusions.  However, we do know that incorrect exit polls only occur when elections are fraudulent.  The frauds in Georgia and Ukraine were detected using said tools.

Shamefully, however, many carry on as if the proceedings of the current government are legitimate.  For example, high profile bloggers such as Delaware Dem, in a recent post, not only surrender the mantle of legitimacy to the fascists but are content to roll over while the Repugs destroy whatever legal protections remain in our government.  I am truly surprised so many in the Left remain docile at this naked aggression, but allowing ourselves to be led down the long road to fascism is perhaps what we deserve for being such a craven and pitiful people.

To paraphrase O'Brien, the great villain of George Orwell's 1984, those in power seek power for its own end.  I find it ironic that so many claim to not trust the government and yet view the elections held by the government as legitimate when third party evidence strongly suggests that it is not.  Expanding on this them, there are certain realities we should be willing to accept, given what we know at this point in time:

• Machievallianism does exist in our government
  
• The 2000 election was fraudulent
  
• The 2004 election was fraudulent
  
• The President has clearly taken illegal actions worthy of impeachment
  
• The official theory on 9/11 holds no water
  
• Each further erosion of our rights we tolerate moves us closer to a fascist state

Indeed, Hitler was democratically elected but the party he represented did not support a democratic system.  Fascist parties are inherently anti-democratic, and the Republican party now demonstrates many tendencies towards this, including but not limited to:

• Election fraud
  
• Voter intimidation
  
• Voter disenfranchisement (ie felon purging)
  
• Identification-to-vote scheme
  
• Suppression of civil liberties

The hand of democrats (note small 'd') in this country is weakening with each blow Junior strikes at our system of government.  We should no longer even pretend that they are legitimate.  Political prudence and electability holds no purpose when the elections are being stolen beneath your very noses.  We should throw everything, including the kitchen sink, at them.  The route to reverse this slide will occur when we first stop them from stealing elections, begin following EVERY item of the Constitution (including the ones we don't like), and rescue the judiciary by appointing qualified people instead of rubber stamp hacks like we see today.