Reply #10: Yep. People refuse to see because the truth is frightening and horrifying.

[tom_paine]

PLUS, it might (god forbid) force them to get up and do something about it if they wish for their descendants to remain free.

But they won't. The Kabuki Theater of the 2008 "election" is proceeding apace, as stage-managed and rigged as a Soviet "election", but with just a bit more "plausible deniability" worked into the scheme, the bare minimum to fool the sheep.

Yawn. I have seen this play before, and I know how it ends.

NOTE to anyone reading this: I am not advocating people not vote. I will be voting for the Democratic Nominee in November and I hope everyone else will, too. But have no illusions about the longshot of those votes being enough to overcome the Bushie Fraud Machine, especially when our own Democratic "Leaders" seem to be very content enabling and burying their crimes (Google Christine Jennings Florida for just one example of many). Illusions disarm us in the face of totalitarian monsters.