Rigged elections, corruption, torture, militarism.

[Jara sang]

The United States of America more closely resembles the corrupt nations of Central America and Africa in the 1960s than a bastion of freedom and democracy. The U.S. is the epitome of what defines a Banana Republic. What has happened to my country? This is not America.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Look up the term fascism

that is what has happened

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. A banana republic run by banana Republicans.

Unfortunately, that's what we're stuck with. For now.

[indepat]

3. What you see is what you get when an extreme RW cabal seizes complete

control of all levers of power.

[pushycat]

4. Rigged elections make possible all manner of corruption, like

torture, The Patriot Act, cronyism, and jingoism. The sooner we face this head on the sooner our elections will get cleaned up.

Paper ballots, hand-counted at the precinct level is all the start we need. To do this doesn't take a machine or lots of money. It takes counting by hand procedures for checks and balances. People can make it happen tomorrow.

When people take back the counting of their ballots from the corporations real democracy will absolutely trash the filthy politicians. They won't have a CHANCE at power ever again.

[Stevepol]

7. Amen! Amen! Amen! Yea Verily! Hear hear!

Perhaps the same result could be achieved by paper ballot print-outs with REQUIRED AUDITS OF AT LEAST 5% and the paper trumping the machine if the slightest discrepancies are found.

[PowerToThePeople]

5. Nov 22, 1963. Your country was taken over be Military-Industrialists. n/t

[European Socialist]

6. you forgot incompetence

[AmyDeLune]

8. Poor Uncle Sam...

Quite the beating he's taken the last few years...