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How To Lose An Election
smooth wombat writes "CNN has posted a story to their site about electronic votes from Miami-Dade County's first widespread use of touchscreen voting machines that were lost due to a computer crash.: 'The malfunction was made public after the Miami-Dade Election Reform Coalition, a citizen's group, requested all data from the 2002 gubernatorial primary between Democratic candidates Janet Reno and Bill McBride.' Other groups are challenging a state rule preventing counties that use the machines from conducting manual recounts from them." Reader fatwater adds a link to the New York Times' coverage.
Why is it touchscreen voting that marks the only time that Republicans don't want to kill trees?
Consider. .
It doesn't matter which of the two Skull and Boners gets put into office as the same agenda will be adhered to. Kerry is just as big a war supporter as Bush.
But if the 'Voting machine scandal' is defeated by the people and JFK (ugh) is put into office on the cheering shoulders of the masses, then the populace will likely settle down and be less apt to complain when the next Middle Eastern country is invaded, (or whatever).
Conversely, part of the technique of controlling people is for the people to accept the control. --That is, as a fascist overlord, (read, 'psychological bully'), it is important to let the curtain up enough so that the people can see the dark machinations, but make it look so difficult to fight that they choose instead to submit. With that submission comes a submission to all other abuses occurring at the same level of 'hotness.'
So the set-up is almost air tight; If you fight the voting machines, you get Kerry and more of the same bullshit, and are apt to go back to sleep believing that you, 'took care of things'. If however, you don't fight the machines, you instead submit to more of the same bullshit under Bush. In both cases, the result is a population which has been calmed and subdued either through submission or daydreaming, but which hasn't prevented one iota the march toward totalitarianism.
And THAT is how you control a nation.
Humans, when incited are very hard to keep locked down. They have two arms and two legs, and brains to make them move. If everybody, all at once decided to storm the halls of government and behead the criminals, there's not much which could stop them. And this is well understood by those who hold the tenuous threads of corrupt power. This is why everybody is drugged both chemically and electronically, locked into exhausting, soul-sucking jobs, and sold hundreds of self-defeating behavioral traits and lies from they day they are born. Sold the belief that they have no power.
But there is another way out which the controllers, blinded by their own selfish predisposition to wishful thinking, cannot see and which is taking power steadily and with geometric growth. . . What is it? Unless you know, you won't grasp it until it bites you on the nose. This decade is getting more interesting by the day!
-FL