[Graeme]

The American People are Beginning To Get It.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'P')ropaganda is a sprinter, but truth is a long-distance runner.

And at last, the truth may be overtaking the propaganda and the lies.

In the new edition of his riveting book, Fooled Again, Mark Crispin Miller describes a public groundswell that should have Bush, Cheney and the Busheviks very worried.

Despite compelling statistical, circumstantial, anecdotal and eyewitness evidence that two presidential and numerous congressional elections have been stolen, this evidence has been discounted, ignored and ridiculed by the mainstream media and, amazingly, by the victimized Democratic Party and its defeated candidates and even by some progressive publications.

Even so, a sizeable and growing portion of the American public isn’t buying the official and bi-partisan assurances that the US elections are, by and large, on the level, and that the Bush/Cheney regime is therefore legitimate. For example, an August, 2006 Zogby poll reports that only 45% of the population is “very confident” that Bush and Cheney won re-election “fair and square” in 2004. About a third were “not at all confident.”

In the “Afterword” to Fooled Again, comprising one hundred pages of new material, Miller chronicles the determined and persistent resistance of “official Democrats” to the very idea that they were the victims of massive election fraud. Astonishingly, progressive publications (yes, there are still a few), such as The Nation, Mother Jones, and the liberal websites, TomPaine.com and Salon.com, have all published caustic articles debunking thoroughly researched and scrupulously argued accusations of election fraud. Familiar ad hominem rebuttals are trotted out: “get over it,” “sore losers,” “conspiracy theorists.” Far more often, the fraud issue is denied even the dignity of mention and rebuttal. With the noteworthy exception of Catherine Crier and Lou Dobbs, the issue is virtually ignored on cable “news,” and, on network TV news, the embargo is total.


In a January, 2006 review of Miller’s book, I wrote that “if we are to restore the ballot box to the voters, we need a media, we need an opposition party, we need an aroused public, and we need a miracle. But take heart: history tells us that political crises have a way of producing miracles.” Since then, we’ve made great strides. Two of those conditions are being met, as an aroused and skeptical public is abandoning the mainstream media and is turning toward a new dissenting media in the internet.


If the Democratic Party is to take charge and lead us out of the current swamp of corruption, exploitation and ignorance, it must take inventory of the present political and economic dangers, secure fair and accurate elections, change direction radically and immediately, and act decisively.

[seldom_seen]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')f the Democratic Party is to take charge and lead us out of the current swamp of corruption, exploitation and ignorance, it must take inventory of the present political and economic dangers, secure fair and accurate elections, change direction radically and immediately, and act decisively.

[Graeme]

Bio Tag: Dr. Ernest Partridge is a consultant, writer and lecturer in the field of Environmental Ethics and Public Policy. He has taught Philosophy at the University of California, and in Utah, Colorado and Wisconsin. He publishes the website, "The Online Gadfly" (www.igc.org/gadfly) and co-edits the progressive website, "The Crisis Papers" (www.crisispapers.org). His book in progress, "Conscience of a Progressive," can be seen at www.igc.org/gadfly/progressive/^toc.htm .

I would be interested to hear from others who are more familiar with American politics than I am.

[highlander]

americans that "get it" put the democrats in charge of congress in 2006.
polls put congressal approval lowerthan that for Bush.
"getting it" and actually being able to do something effective about it seem to be two vastly different things.
If any of the "top tier" candidates from either party become our next president, it will show how little we as a whole "get it"

[jasonraymondson]

The American People wouldn't get it, if the truth was simultaneously broadcast on Fox, CNN, and MSNBC

To get it, people would have to care about something other than their own little pathetic existence and for the majority, that is asking to much.

[Niagara]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('seldom_seen', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')f the Democratic Party is to take charge and lead us out of the current swamp of corruption, exploitation and ignorance, it must take inventory of the present political and economic dangers, secure fair and accurate elections, change direction radically and immediately, and act decisively.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('highlander', 'a')mericans that "get it" put the democrats in charge of congress in 2006.