Ask Your Friends: Why Do Republicans Hate Democracy So Much?

[David Zephyr]

Isn't it just about obvious to everyone that the Republicans only maintain power when they fool the electorate, when they suppress voter enthusiasm at election time, when they make registering to vote and the very act of voting itself difficult for poor people, and when they poison the election results by tampering with paper ballot design and/or gaming electronic voter machines?

Could it be that maybe the middle class has finally caught on to what the poor have always known? Have white collar workers in the suburbs figured out what blue collar families have always known? Have white independents finally begun to do the math that minority voters did long ago about the state of democracy in America?

Is there democracy in America anymore? After Florida in 2000? After Ohio in 2004? Why do we believe that the congressional elections in 2006 will have any more legitimacy? Will they?

Aren't the headlines enough to tell us that there is no democracy here anymore?

Butterfly ballots. Diebold voting machines. Literacy tests. Poll taxes. Voter I.D. requirements. Scarcity of voting machines in poor and minority neighborhoods. Purging voter rolls before election time. And of course, the greatest farce of them all: the Electoral College.

Are you sick of George Bush, the man who defiled the election process in the United States, pontificating about democracy to the entire world?

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

[jhrobbins]

1. My problem ( and I am sure theirs too) is that I know I am right..

and that they are wrong. I think we all somehow live within this paradigm that we are right and that the opposition knows that they are wrong but dismiss it for personal gain. It is hard to believe that they could really believe that their bigotry and myopia is real, but it is - they believe they are doing the right thing and that is the hardest thing to swallow.

[David Zephyr]

2. So sad and so true.

They "believe" and that's the problem. Well said.

[katty]

3. Why did Kings beat & and torture revolutionaries?All about Control

[MissMarple]

4. Filled with hate re liberals,they must view the Constitution with contempt

They hate free speech, individual rights, and anything pertaining to the general welfare and real security of the American people.