If all those who could, joined the mostly have-nots who
comprise Occupy, I believe that far more positive change would be
accomplished--or would Obama become an Assad or let America be America, perhaps
for the first time?
How much would such a revolution accomplish?
But, to get back to the vote, which in my book I assume to
be the bottom line of democracy, those who discard that right will guarantee
that the worse of two evils will always win, because at this point the left
wing is alienated from the system even more than the Tea Party, which retains
allegiance to the Republican Party.
Conscientious activists fight constantly to clean up our
deeply flawed electoral system. As it tends toward transparent paper voting,
voter i.d. laws are becoming stricter and more widespread--half the country has
some form of voter i.d. legislation.
And beyond that, in case we the people manage to push it
back, as the Department of Justice is attempting in two states, South Carolina
successfully so far, there is the push toward Internet voting, a guaranteed 100
percent hackable option. So Plan C, or whatever ordinal is operative, is
rearing its ugly head at the horizon.
WE HAVE TO FIGHT. WE CAN'T STOP FIGHTING. That is our
destiny as much as persecution has been for the Jews throughout history.
As I have said so many times, not like a broken record but
perhaps like an electronic printer gone berserk, it all boils down to human
nature, a constant battle between the bad and the good.
In Grassroots, Geeks,
Pros, and Pols, I write that the day computerized voting becomes
trustworthy, including Internet voting, and comes into consistent and
ubiquitous use, we will have evolved higher on the arc of justice than we have
ever been.
It's human nature, constantly in flux. We are in God's jar
that is filled with water, with sand firmly planted on the bottom--us. But if
God turns the jar upside down, we will be on top, the 99 percent. How will we
behave then?
(c)
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