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• Thursday, August 21, 2008 08:27 AM

  The Test-Are 50 plus percent of Voters Totally Ignorant and Clueless?

  This is a great, hardworking critical analysis, but the people who most need it probably dont read anything taxing and have totally closed minds. This is democracy at work in a land that honors violence and bias, devalues mind, faith and rationalism and has lost its ideals. With the New Yorker article and the propaganda cited, some percent of the electorate will vote for McCain, or against Obama. We already have 10 plus percent of Demo primary voters casting their vote against Obama on the basis of race. I have supported Barack from the beginning, financially and morally, but I live far away and cant do much directly.

  I dont have an answer but if Obama loses, our descent into fascism-are we there yet?-will accelerate. What can change this. Maybe the economic crisis will put so many out of work that they will wake up, but probably not. Times are ripe for these boobs and ignoramuses to create their own Hitler. I know this sounds crazy but I am sickened by the depths that these propagandists are reaching and feel completely powerless. The little vote every 4 years is really inadequate.

  I live in southern Mexico and they have a much higher sense of human rights than we do. I have been visiting all parts of Germany for a month. They are a 21st century society in all ways and have overcome so much since the 2nd world war. Germany, China, France, Japan and many other countries that once looked to the US, but made their own way, are ready to step up and push us into the dustbin of history.

  As a nation, white America is like George W. Bush, born on 3rd base and thought he hit a triple. Our immigrants were generally born with a great respect for education, though many times not educated, respected hard work and struggle and had traditions of great physical skill and learning.

  They landed on a country that had the best combination of fertile land and navigable water, as well as minerals, of any country in the world. Just one part of this, for example, the midwest breadbasket of flat, well drained fertile land is 1,000 miles by 1,500 miles, give or take a few, unmatched anywhere. We have wasted much of this patrimony through bad government and a penchant for giving leadership to the most prejudiced, conniving, corrupt, violent elements in our society. Read Naomi Klein, Shock Capitalism, or the book Overthrow to see the documentation of how we have destroyed many other societies who had the audacity to attempt real freedom and working toward the good societý.

  Go, Barack, but if you dont make it, know that the deck has been stacked from the get go.

  —dickginnold Read dickginnold's other letters
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