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November 22, 2004
History's Timeline: when democracies discover election fraud
Today I saw the following two headlines on the [Bridgeport] Connecticut Post international page: “U.S. will support Palestinian election” and “Iraq’s prime minister confident in Jan. 30 vote.”
Boy, as Bush said, it really looks like “freedom is on the march.”
But then, underneath those headlines, I saw a third— one that painted a clearer picture of today’s world: “Election fraud fires Ukranian anger.”
Ughh... So, tens of thousands of protesters claim that the Ukraine (a member country of the “Commonwealth of Independent States,” or former USSR) recent presidential runoff election was fraudulent. (If you didn’t guess already, the state-run Central Election Commission says the opposition candidate, Viktor Yushchenko lost to Viktor Yanukovych, the incumbent, Moscow-favored, party’s candidate).
Maybe there was Florida election-2000 thing and old people just couldn’t figure out which “Viktor” to vote for, due to poor ballot design.
Regardless, it does appear that American-style democracy really is sweeping the globe.
“In the early 1970s, there were about 40 democracies in the world,” said George George Bush In a Nov. 6 speech marking the 25th anniversary of the National Endowment for Democracy. “As the 20th century ended, there were around 120 democracies in the world— and I can assure you more are on the way.”
Now, this is theoretically true, even if among those 120 democracies, Bush is counts Russia. I f you haven’t been paying much attention recently, Russia has been reinvented as a non-Communist, totalitarian regime under President Vladimir Putin, the ex-KGB agent who, under the guise of fighting Russia’s own War on Terror (Chechnya), has declared that he will appoint the governors of Russia’s provinces, rather than let them be elected. Putin also started putting Russia’s powerful new robber barons behind bars. This is fine and dandy since they really are criminals (tax cheats at best, Slavic mafiosi at worst).
But anyway back to Bush’s “freedom on the march crap.” Indeed “democracy” has swept the earth in recent decades.
In the beginning of the basic human historical timeline, there were tribal chieftains. Then there were kings. Modern democracies emerged in the 18th century, and by the early 20th, the world split along two basic tracks: (1) totalitarian states (dictatorships and some monarchies), and (2) democratic regimes of varying forms (and of course, their imperial properties in Asia, Africa, and South America).
And then something remarkable happened—something Bush failed to mention.
Democracies discovered election fraud.
This fantastic development gives people who live in an oligarchy the illusion that they live in a democracy. In the U.S. we have a coalitional oligarchy composed of corporations and the Christian Elite (more commonly referred to as “the Christian Right,” I have chosen to call them the “Christian Elite” in answer to their nonsense term, the “Liberal Elite”—if Liberals were the elite, they would be in power, wouldn’t they?).
So let’s see, less than a year after the contested (oh let’s say it—stolen and illegal) U.S. presidcntial election of 2000, the NeoConservatives convinced Bush to install democracies across the world under force of the American bayonet.
The “new democracies” in Eastern Europe, they said, showed that FreedomTM and capitalism were snowballing, and the U.S. could just as easily turn nasty totalitarian regimes in Islamic countries into democratic, free-market utopias.
Looking great so far! But I think we need to coin a new phrase: “New Democracy.” New Democracy being... well basically, fraudulent democracies installed by the “former” imperialist Old Democracies. “Live free or die, muthas.”
Posted by MJuhre at November 22, 2004 04:37 PM