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and wouldn't put up for a minute with Bushite corporations owning and controlling the counting of their votes with SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code, no paper trail, no recounts, no audits possible, and the falsification of exit poll results by corporate news monopolies. They would have a revolution. They really value democracy over there.
Paper ballots, which are placed into a clear glass jar that sits on a table in clear view of everyone, and which are then counted in public while anyone may watch, with the entire election checked for fraud and verified by honest, independent exit polls. Any discrepancy with the exit polls triggers vigorous protests and a recount.
A very, very big contrast with what happens in the U.S., which can hardly be dignified with the word "election," it is so non-transparent, unverifiable and corrupt--and so completely unrepresentative of majority opinion. (*See below.)
For another thing, Germany's political "center" is far to the left of ours. Germany has a fine combination of capitalism and socialism, in which all men and women are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights to truly fair wages, merciful free or cheap medical care, decent vacations, family leave, and all manner of initiatives for the common good--none of which have harmed Germany's work ethic, but instead have created a country where justice, fairness and peacefulness are actually happening.
Merkel won't be able to undo much of this (if she even wants to). She will be heading a government (if she wins) which is a world leader in worker protections, responsible taxation and programs aimed at the common welfare of German society.
It's as if the two factions of the Democratic Party (in its heyday) formed the entire political spectrum: left and far left.
And I strongly suspect that any German financial troubles are caused by the capitalists--who are itching to loot the middle class, as ours have succeeded in doing--or by manipulations of the Bush junta or the global corporate predators with whom they associate.
Why blame the productive and happy workers? Sounds like a crock to me.
The Bush junta hates Schroeder and German socialism. They will never forgive Shroeder's antiwar stance, and they loathe ANY example of fair sharing of the wealth (i.e., Venezuela, for instance). They have every reason to harm Schroeder and the ordinary people who support him--and enormous financial wherewithal (most of it looted from us) with which to inflict harm, support greedy elites, and even destroy the German economy.
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And what makes you think that Americans are as closely divided as Germany is right now? Name your sources.
Warning: I have extensive sources that establish, without any question, that the great majority of Americans are progressive in their views and anti-Bush. There are a wide range of issue polls, for instance, that show that the great majority of Americans disapprove of every major Bush policy, foreign and domestic, way up in the 60% to 70% range--across the board in all polls, for well over a year. You name it. The Iraq war. Torture policy. Social Security. The deficit. Women's rights. The majority of Americans greatly favor the progressive side on EVERY major issue. In fact, we have broad progressive consensus in this country. But we also have grave disempowerment and, above all, DISENFRANCHISEMENT of the American majority.
The only statistic--and I mean the ONLY one--that supports a 50/50 (or near 50/50) split (in favor of Bush) is the "official results" of the 2004 election, which were derived from Diebold's and ES&S's SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code--code so secret that not even our secretaries of state are permitted to review it. (Not that they would care--bunch of corrupt S.O.B.'s, wining and dining and being lavishly lobbied at the Beverly Hilton this August, sponsored by Diebold, ES&S and Sequoia--peeeeeee-uuuuuuu!).
All other information points to strong dislike of Bush and his policies, and to election fraud and illegitimate rule:
The exit polls said Kerry won. (TV networks suppressed that data on election night, but later coughed it up, under pressure.)
Analysis of the exit polls establishes an impossible skew to Bush in the "official results."
The pre-election polls said that Bush could not win. (--Zogby).
The Dem grass roots blew the Bushites away in new voter registration in 2004, nearly 60/40.
New voters, independents and former Nader voters all voted very heavily for Kerry--as, of course, did Gore 2000 voters. (Who else is there? Karl Rove's "invisible" get out the vote campaign? Har-har.)
Biggest turnout in history (--always favors Democrats).
Intense poor, black and Dem vote suppression in Ohio, and purges of black voters in Florida, and of masses of black and brown voters nationwide (--Greg Palast and other sources), so that the REAL margin of victory for Kerry, if those illegally prevented from voting were counted, is higher than his exit poll 3%, at least 5% or higher.
Bush's personal approval rating was a dismal 49% on the very day of his inauguration--an unheard of low (no "rallying round the president" there)--was miserable throughout 2004 before the election, and has plummeted dramatically to the low 40s or lower since the election.
All of the above polls--exit polls, issue polls, and popularity polls--are weighted towards Republicans and rightwing views, so the numbers against Bush and all Bush policy are probably even greater than these reported polls reflect.
We are not closely divided. The pro-Bush, pro-rightwing view is a distinct minority. 40% at best. (--with the sole stat giving him 50+% coming from Diebold and ES&S.)
We progressives are the majority--indeed, the great majority--but we can barely be heard; our votes are stolen or changed, or thrown out (by secret programming), or we are not permitted to vote; and the war profiteering corporate news monopolies don't heed their own polls, and continue to trumpet minority rightwing views way out of proportion to their numbers.
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