This is the third time dirty tricks have cost us the loss [View all]

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of a duly elected President.

Al Gore was the first when the recount of the Florida votes was stopped and subsequently the Supreme Court upheld that action and literally selected Bush. That day we stopped being a Constitutional Democracy, but people preferred to pretend it didn’t happen. Two of our three branches of government failed as Congress did nothing, and the Judiciary took on powers it’s never been given, and the selected winner took up the reins of our third branch.

John Kerry was the second when every dirty trick in the book was used to defame him and no one thought it of importance to set the record straight. People who had seen what happened when Bush was selected had long since decided the selection was OK. Things had happened with the Bush administration that could never be reversed. We had all moved on to the wars. That time it was the media who failed us as well as every branch of government. We, the American people as aa body, believed that the Bush administration would actually have clean voting that time even though they didn’t the first time. And so we got Bush again to eventually explode our economy too.

Hillary Clinton is the third. This time it was the combined failure of the above mentioned perpetrators and the added brazen criminality of the Trump/Russia criminal enterprise to gain control of the American government for personal political gain, both for raw power itself and for lucrative gain. Trump sucked the air out of the country and may have blown the last flicker of life out of our shredded Constitution. Congress has long since abdicated all power and lays supine awaiting further instruction. The Judiciary did nothing. Our representatives passed themselves guaranteed untold future wealth and have decided to quit their jobs and go home. Mission accomplished.

As a country calling itself, correctly or not, the United States of America and calling ourselves a Democratically run Constitution we will continue to live our daily lives like that’s true, and for those of us who are white and male it may even feel that way for a while.

But if we actually face the above facts and do something about it there still may be a window of opportunity, not to reverse what has happened since 2000 because that’s water under the bridge and a dark part of our history but to restore Democracy and our Constitution. We must all vote this year, like it were possibly the last time it really counts.