In fact Gore has already won, and it would be so recognized in any
other country in the world.
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> Who Cares?
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>
> The  permanent campaign has become the  eternal vote count, creating
> equal amounts of hysteria , hilarity, boredom  and disgust. America’s
> short attention span is  being sorely tested by our closest presidential
> election, which has become a  battle between the ruling party's hired
> shysters.
>
> The nation’s richest lawyers have lined up at the financial feeding
> trough for a litigation frenzy that may last until the next election.
> Media  information spinners are offering breathless and often brainless
> coverage and analysis,   but some good may come of this mess.
>
> We may finally change our antiquated electoral system, which is  shamed
> by other nations with  procedures that work more smoothly and
> democratically. Our  politics are already corrupted by money, and now
> that the dreadful condition of our election process has been revealed,
> there may be less tolerance for our imperial rulers telling other people
> how to achieve what we don’t  have: democracy.
>
> The global community is having great fun, with South Africa , Serbia and
> Cuba offering to send us election advisors.  TV comics hope this farce
> goes on forever, and anarchists  love  having “nobody” for president.
> The ironies are numerous, and humorous.
>
> A boring  race between a biogenetic  pro-government drone and an
> intellectually challenged anti-government clone was transformed into an
> exciting vote count, for a while .  Democrat William Daley complained
> about voting irregularities. He is  the son of Chicago mayor Richard
> Daley, who created  affirmative action programs for zombies,  featuring
> an annual parade of footprints from the cemetery to the ballot box on
> election day.
>
> Republican supporters of state’s rights  went to federal court to stop
> the state from recounting , while Democratic supporters of federalism
> professed more  faith in Florida than in the USA.
>
> For all the squabbling about dimpled and pregnant chads, and machine or
> hand counting , history  may simply remember the outgoing president as
> being  impeached for a blow-job in the white house, and the incoming
> president for  being elected by a hand-job in Florida.
>
> And the American presidency will be decided by a state that has
> thousands of voters who care more about foreign countries - Cuba and
> Israel - than they do about the  USA.
>
> Every national election is filled with errors, lost ballots, confused
> voters and bigotry. This one was no different. It is only the closeness
> of the vote  that has focused attention on imperfections, but not the
> right ones.
>
> The hole in our ozone  is tiny compared to the gaping wound suffered by
> our  democracy, but that wound was not inflicted by confusing ballots,
> corrupt officials or ignorant voters. Democracy was savaged by the
> corporate party, when it denied Americans the right to hear opposing
> viewpoints from Nader and Buchanan in the debates.
>
> The recount controversy has temporarily halted the  Democratic hate
> campaign against Nader. Despite personal slurs and a fear crusade that
> had many believing their vote for him would bring Nazis to power, he got
> 2.7 million votes, while spending only seven million dollars .
> Goreberman  spent that much on TV ads in Michigan alone, and Bushney may
> have spent more than that on lunch for their staff.
>
> While some  Democratic “leaders” were trashing Nader  because his
> campaign was seen as too white, the Democrat’s may have been defeated by
> their own racism .
>
> The “new” Democrats criminal crusade that locked up thousands of Blacks
> for non-violent offenses damaged their candidates far more than Nader.
> 13 percent of  Black men can’t vote because of past  convictions, and
> those  who served their time and went on to lead productive lives could
> have provided the victory margin for Al Gore and the Democrats , had
> they had been allowed to vote.
>
> Along with our racism, our social priorities become crystal clear in
> this  fiasco: in the USA, shopping and driving are far more important
> than voting.
>
> We maintain a  multi-trillion dollar credit system , accurately
> tabulating balances while enabling millions to over-consume, often
> without  leaving their homes; why can’t we create an easy, accurate
> voting  system?
>
> We  provide ATM  machines that balance accounts and produce cash when
> operated by consumers  properly trained in their use; why can’t we
> educate  people to use ballots and voting machines with the same
> proficiency?
>
> We  transport billions of gallons of gasoline to fuel pumps all over
> america,  have citizens operate those pumps  to fill their polluters,
> and bill them to the penny; why can’t we  enable those same citizens to
> go to a polling place, be quickly and easily registered , and have their
> votes tabulated without a mistake?
>
> Welcome to the marketplace, where democracy is  more expensive  than
> consumer goods , and  more difficult to find than a parking space at
> the  corporate mall.
>
> Make no mistake,  whichever of these weaklings assumes the presidency,
> it is the corporadoes who have won. Their foreign policy will assure
> that military spending  increases, innocent people die in unjust wars,
> and the Israeli  occupied  territories still include the West Bank,
> Gaza, Congress and the White House.
>
> They will continue selling  drugs  that play profit roulette with  our
> nervous systems ; they will continue  peddling biogenetic food products
> that treat our digestive systems as a merchandise mart ; and they will
> continue  using our democracy as a contested turf among their hired
> hands, in this and all  elections that  pit one gang of the corporate
> mafia against another in a battle for territorial control. Until we
> claim control of that territory, which is  our bodies, our souls and our
> nation, these dope dealers,  polluters and  murderers will go on
> contaminating it with their political, economic and moral savagery.
>
> Enjoy your holiday dinners, but don’t expect much from the turkey in the
> White House. When we  finally give “the bird” to the system he serves,
> we’ll all be able to enjoy a real season of peace. Meanwhile, drive, and
> shop, carefully.
>
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