All Rights Reserved © 2004 Thomas W. Day
2004 could be my last election for a long while. I have voted in every election, local and national, since 1968. I have put my mark next to names for Presidents and City Council members, Senators and county judges, and I've found some reason to either write-in a name or select an properly registered name for every position on every ballot that I've been allowed to complete. The 2000 and 2004 elections have proved that exercising that "right" is a pointless waste of time. Republicans have bought, bribed, terrorized, and cheated our election system into a foregone conclusion and I don't want to contribute to the illusion that our democracy is still democratic. We are a corporate communist state, blended with a neocon crackpot theocracy, and justice has gone the way of the dodo. I mean the bird, not the dumbass Texan in the White House.
Citizens were shown that their wimpy little participation in "democracy" was unwanted and unneeded in 2000. After the voter fraud in Florida, the Supreme Republican Court decided the election with the most blatant and vile distain for states' rights, one-man-one-vote, and the concept of representative democracy in general. The Republican Senate refused to exercise its responsibility and allowed the fraudulent "election" to stand, in spite of irrefutable evidence that the Bushies had violated the voter rights of thousands of Florida citizens and, after all that, had still lost the Florida election.
In 2004, the Republicans were even more blatant. They put up thousands of fake electronic voting machines in Ohio and other backward states. They tossed out hundreds of thousands of votes and broke so many civil rights laws that even other countries were astounded at the passivity of United States citizens.
I am disgusted. While whacky neo-Christers are babbling about how the founding fathers would be turning over in their graves at how "liberals" have removed religion from government and education, I know that the men who wrote the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights would be disappointed that there hasn't been a revolution against the corporate commies who arrogantly own the country. Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Sam and John Adams, George Washington, and Ben Franklin did not risk everything to create a corporate theocracy. Those thoughtful men did not accidentally begin the Bill of Rights with "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." Humans had suffered several hundred years of religious persecution, horrific torture, vicious totalitarian governments, and unbalanced economic systems, all at the hands of governments based on religion. One of the key components of The Enlightenment was the understanding that government and religion should never mix. The fall of the republic of the United States is one more piece of evidence to support that obvious platform of democracy.
The reason I am leaving the polls is that I don't believe my vote will even be counted in the future. Republicans have shown that they will do anything to achieve their goals. Anything. They will destroy this country and all of the good things it stands for to protect the interests of the rich, powerful, and superstitious scumbags they represent. They will invalidate voter rights, abolish the Bill of Rights, terrorize citizens and foreign nations, wage war against random fictional enemies," and bankrupt the world's natural resources. There have never been more evil people in charge of weapons of mass destruction in the history of humanity. Voting is a waste of time in a time and something we don't have to waste.
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