Dictionary.com
defines the term "activist" as "an especially active, vigorous
advocate of a cause. . . ."
Truth
sleuth Greg Palast will deny this descriptor, but what is
Reporters
tell what happened and is happening, but Palast also advocates actions.
Enough Said. Now to the
victims: voters, especially those of the underclass, which also encompasses nearly all of us: kids (subset:
students), oldsters, indigent minorities, ex-felons . . .
For instance: "In 2004
in New Mexico, there were a total of nineteen thousand blank and oddly ruined
ballots. Here's the weird part: 89 percent, nine out of ten votes destroyed,
were cast by Hispanics . . . or African Americans or Native Americans. George Bush won the state by
fewer than six thousand votes."
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767,023 provisional ballots were cast and
not counted;
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1,451,116 ballots were "spoiled," not counted;
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488,136 absentee ballots were mailed in,
but not counted; and
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2,383,587 would-be voters had their
registrations rejected;
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491,952 voters already registered were wrongly
purged from the rolls; and
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320,000 properly registered voters were simply
turned away from the polls when they tried to vote, mostly for not having IDs
acceptable to a poll worker.
In addition, thanks to the repeal
of Glass-Steagall and the SCOTUS upholding of Citizens United, Romney will be able to outspend Obama by multiple
billions and Obama's huge following has been decimated because the changes he promised
haven't quite vaporized the inestimable damages wrought by the previous
administration, though unemployment statistics are down since he was elected.
Those still unemployed don't care; passage of ACA was dramatic if not epochal
and yet such triumphs can be erased with words and commercials. Bin Laden was
nabbed eleven years too late for that accomplishment to sway the public, and so
on and so on, so there's a lot going against the people's choice. It's still
Obama. We all know that.
The Republicans know that if
everyone who could vote did vote, there would never be another GOP president
again, and that fact has motivated Palast's explanation of why, more in-depth
than in previous studies/reports, Republicans have dominated governments since
the late 1960s and their back-stage artistry has ballooned exponentially. Karl
Rove came of age around that time. Would our plight be half so tragic had he
remained in the mailroom business? Hard to say.
Palast turns his artistry inside-out
and its impact not only here but around the world, in a meticulous network of
Paul Singers, Koch brothers, and Ice Men, among others, busy destroying the
world because they can't see beyond their own ridiculously overloaded bank
accounts. They just don't understand that in destroying the world's people they
are destroying themselves. In destroying Nature, they are destroying Culture,
and vice versa.
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