What to believe?

[teach1st]

Election fraud or no election fraud. My problem is that if I concede that Bush got the votes, I then have to deal with thinking that:

The majority of the people in this country believe that attacking a country without us being threatened by that country is correct or is forgivable or simply didn't happen.

The majority of the people in this country believe that giving our country false and mistaken reasons for attacking another country is correct or is forgivable or simply didn't happen.

The majority of the people in this country believe that torture and abuse of prisoners of war is correct or is forgivable or simply didn't happen.

The majority of the people in this country believe that the death of thousands and thousands of innocent civilians and thousand of our soldiers in a mistaken war is correct or is forgivable or simply didn't happen.

The majority of the people in this country believe that diverting resources away from defending ourselves against our attackers to this mistaken war is correct or is forgivable or simply didn't happen.

And I could go on and on with a virtually endless list of Bush administration actions that have burdened our economy, threatened our rights, harmed our environment, weakened our protection against terrorism, etc.

If I believe that George Bush really did get the votes, then I have to believe that a small majority of American people don't care about political and ideological decency or that they are seriously misinformed or that they are in denial about the truth. I don't want to believe that.

[Mizmoon]

1. You assume people are thinking rationally

the entire republican strategy is to get people worked up about issues that don't mean jack so that they forget to think rationally. If the people are petrified that the homos are coming to "queerify" their children, they won't worry about wars based on lies and dead Iraqis and all that stuff.

[teach1st]

3. You're right, of course...

..I can't get over that damn logical thinking.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. He didn't get the votes the first time... and he didn't get the votes

this time... and if voter intimidation, crippling long lines, absolutely terrible weather, highly possible voting machine fraud, contradictory exit polls, and repug machinations are added into the equation, John Kerry won by a landslide as I said he would. Don't worry, better than half of your country is sane.... the other half just need a little more time to see the real man behind the curtain.

[dbt]

4. The bad news is that bu$h got the votes.

The really bad news is HOW he got those votes. Just a few percentage points of "tilt" programmed into every voting machine that provides no audit trail, and it looks like an entire nation sold its soul to Jimmy Swaggart.

A masterpiece of Fraud!

:argh:
dbt

[OneBlueSky]

5. another option . . .

is that a large percentage of Bush voters were simply ignorant of the great issues of the day, didn't particularly like either Bush or Kerry, and in the end decided to vote what they perceived as "the lesser of two evils," or not to "switch horses in midstream," or whatever . . . personally, I think there were an awful lot of these kinds of voters . . . which, btw, belies any notion of a Bush mandate . . .

[sallyseven]

6. Most of the country are haters.

Religious haters, race haters, female haters, rich people haters except the ones g w bush likes. They are not Christians they are haters. You know what if it weren't for my children and grand children I wouldn't care. I just love them too much to see this happen to them. That pig face bastard is such pox on our life. Maybe the end is coming.