Worse stolen or worse legitimate?

[DuaneBidoux]

I find myself very torn about which hurts more, to imagine that a small cadre of thieves stole the election (and there is thus truly that much corruption at the top) or whether it hurts more to believe that Americans actually did vote this man in.

[idiosyncratic]

1. That is actually hard to answer

I would be mortified to know that the people actually voted * in for the first time.

But I am horrified that it was stolen again . . . and we may not get the result reversed.

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[LizW]

2. I say worse stolen because

it means that we have no government anymore. If the voting process is corrupted and rendered unreliable, democracy is over. Even worse is that so many seem to be complicit. If the election was stolen, then Kerry and the Democrats know it, and either can't or won't do anything about it. The media knows it, and is actively trying to cover it up and offer all sorts of bogus explainations for why it turned out the way it did.

All that taken together scares me more than Bush winning legitimately.

[HappinessPie]

3. I'm torn between the two because...

If it was legitimate, it means that more than half of this country is populated by bigots, ignorant fools, sadists, cowards, greedy bastards, and/or hateful people, who can all be manipulated like so many marionettes. I would like to have more faith in my fellow countrymen than that. Although even if it's proven to be stolen, there are still a heck of a lot of them and that is scary to me.

If it was stolen AND nothing is done about it, I can never believe in democracy again, at least not in this country.

It's a Hobson's choice. :(

[Mz Pip]

4. both

If stolen, it just proves that BushCo would do anything to stay in power. Fraud included.

If this election was legitimate then this country is going in a direction that is 180 degrees opposite of what I believe this country is all about.

Both senarios are scary to me.

MzPip
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[AndyTiedye]

5. Either Way We're Screwed

If it was stolen, which seems pretty likely, it is just as likely
that all future elections will be stolen unless we can pry control of the
voting infrastructure away from the Christian Reconstructionsts at
Diebold and ES&S.

If it was legitimate, then they have learned to fool most of the people all of the time, and democracy is doomed.