Daily Kos on paranoia:
p.s. It’s becoming more in vogue to say “if there are elections next year”. Jeez, please don’t pull the “black helicopter” spiel on us! There will be elections. I don’t like Bush, but no one is about to upsurp the Constitution and cancel elections. Lay a bit off the paranoia, please.
And in any case, such defeatism is ridiculous. We should be getting pumped up to take on the GOP and its Mighty Wurlitzer. This will be a DIRTY election, an outright war, and we will need all the bodies and resources we can muster.
The GOP didn’t need to cancel an election to make its gains in 2002. It used good ol’ fashioned bodies on the ground. That’s where 2004 will be fought — in the metaphorical trenches. If you want to be deafeatist, by all means, it’s your right. But please spare the rest of us busy preparing for the looming battle.
He’s right folks. The elections won’t be cancelled, but they will be manipulated. We saw it in Florida during the 2000 elections (and not only in Florida) with illegal purgings of probable Democratic voters of the voting rolls, with unreliable voting equipment being the norm in Democratic leaning districts, but not in Republican leaning districts, with uncontrollable electronic voting systems installed without audit trails and even with
*police roadblocks* in front of voting bureaus! (More info…)
If y’all let them, they’ll do it again.