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There is no question that result of the elections in US today will create history.
It feels like a clash of two generations. Progressive smart young candidate vs an old and loved by the lobbyists in Washington guy who likes to say “me and my friends” a lot.
Obama is the Internet super star. John McCain had to pay people to write pro-McCain comments on blogs. He seems to be the favorite of the ‘official’ media.
I don’t know if the American people realize how much is at stake in these elections. They are deciding if the world will have a fighting chance to become a great place or it will keep sliding towards ignorance.
There are some things I can’t comprehend:
- Why there are no IQ tests for politicians. Seriously.
- If this is a democracy then why is the software running on the electronic voting machines not with open source license. Why can’t anybody go and check exactly how the machine is counting the votes?
- There is only one company that makes these machines - Diebold. Only one! Most likely no biding contract.
- The CEO of that company announced (Aug, 2003) that he had been a top fund-raiser for G. W. Bush (WTF)
- why the new touch screen machine developed a strange ‘calibration’ problem which doesn’t go away when the machine is re-calibrated?
Do you know what Josef Stalin said about voting?
“Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.”
In the current democracies, it seems that whoever has more money to spend on advertisements wins the elections. It is wrong. It basically means that whoever is more special interest friendly will have more money and win. Obama is probably the first candidate who managed to get some serious support from the internet and rise record funds. The old and ignorant guys like McCain are probably going bananas because the mega corp money are facing resistance.
So what is next, are the mega corporations rich enough to buy your vote? How much would you ask for if they ‘d offer you money for your vote? How much is your freedom worth America?
