Shadow On The Land

[bobquasit]

I've been avoiding the news as much as possible, but more and more I am coming to believe that John Kerry will lose, or at least that the election will be close enough to allow Bush to easily steal it.

And I really believe that this means the end of democracy in America; for all that it sounds hokey, we are entering a period of classical fascism with meaningless democratic trimmings.

Soon we will be living under the shadow, and I have to wonder just when I should take my family and get the hell out of the burning, crumbling house that was once America.

I'll always love the idea of America, but that makes me loathe the hideous perversion that we are becoming all the more.

Comments

[klyfix.livejournal.com]

I'm certainly concerned that if Bush and the current crop of Republicans
retain power the US will end up being perhaps less free than Russia under
Putin is. Still, my impression from the total info I can see is that the
election is very much a horse race. The polls, contrary to the spin that
the general media might give them, show it to be extremely close. And while
the recent document fiasco would seem to have inoculated Dubya from any real
damage from the realities of his guard record, I'm seeing some hints that
my wild hypothesis about the fake documents in fact being a GOP dirty trick
may not be totally absurd. The Plame affair is still out there, and just
recently some Texas folk who worked with Tom DeLay (House Majority Leader)
were indicted (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A39563-2004Sep21?language=printer)
with some chance that DeLay himself will be indicted.

Granted that Kerry is far from the perfect candidate running far from the
perfect campaign, and granted that the So-Called Liberal Media is not going
to be as hard on Bush as they were on Gore and Clinton. Still, the flaws
of this administration's policies are extremely hard to cover or ignore.
Heck, even the situation in Iraq is major news, putting the lie to the
claims that everything is going well.

Yeah, Bush is doing way better than he rightly should be. Yeah, a whole
bunch of people are going to vote for him under the impression that his
actions after 9/11 in doing mostly what any other President would have done
somehow earn him a second term, or under the impression that he's somehow
just about God's Avatar. Still, there is a good chance Bush will not
get a second term.

Biggest concern is that whoever "wins" will not be accepted by a large part
of the country. We're certainly going to question any Bush "win" in a close
state, and I'm concerned that some GOP folk will attempt to prevent Kerry from
taking office by declaring votes invalid or possibly even other more severe
methods.