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freeisbest <demeter547opine@yahoo.com> wrote
> Bert Hyman wrote
>> bobnospam@gmail.com (Bob) wrote
>>> Bert Hyman <bert@iphouse.com> wrote
>>>> bobnospam@gmail.com (Bob) wrote
>>>>> Bert Hyman <bert@iphouse.com> wrote
>>>>>> bearclaw@cruller.invalid () wrote

>>>>>>> Let's censor them instead of the voices of men and women who
>>>>>>> fought the kind of fascism our current government offers us.
>>>>>>> All it goes to show is that it is hard to soar with eagles
>>>>>>> when there are nothing but turkeys to lead us.

>>>>>> Good thing we have elections every two years.

>>>>> Only if somehow we can make them honest.

>>>> They're as honest as they've ever been.
>>>> It's just never mattered much before.

>>> I think you should do a little reading
>>> about the last 2 presidential elections.

>> That's only meaningful if you believe the last two elections were
>> somehow different from all the elections that went before, other
>> than in the amount of media coverage the irregularities received.

>   I believe they are.  I'm statistically likely to be one of the
> oldest readers of this n.g. (mid-60's).  I've listened to political
> conversations since Roosevelt was in office.  My first presidential
> vote was cast for Kennedy.

>   On the basis of that perspective, yes, I do believe that these last
> two elections were different: a dangerous, destabilizing amount of
> power is in the hands of a single out-of-control political machine.

Or silly old farts like you have been mindlessly hyperventilating
like that for millennia now. Very well documented that the Greeks
and the Romans used to mindlessly hyperventilate like that too,
and presumably for countless millennia before that too, no one
bothered to write it down for us to laugh at now in those earlier days.

> Worse, everything has become orders of magnitude bigger,
> mostly because of computers - the corruption, the money,
> the lies, the mistakes, the frauds, the coverups - everything.

Nope, because of mass communication, stupid.

> Starting out in the early 40's as the hope of the western world,

Oh bullshit.

> we have devolved in an oligarchy perfectly capable
> of smashing anything that gets in "our" way.

Hasnt happened with Iraq or Afghanistan, and it wont either.

> Imho, it's impossible exaggerate how serious this situation has become.

Your hairy opinion is completely irrelevant.

> I tell everyone who seems vaguely interested:
> VOTE in November... or lose the right to vote
> for the foreseeable future.

Completely off with the fucking fairys now.