After an irritating couple days long empty exchange with an editor at truthout.org I realized he offered me an excellent opportunity to highlight one of many reasons the progressive movement is so good at losing.
You see, Greg Palast spent a lot of time and effort putting together a well written concise report for TruthOut.org: “The No-BS Inside Guide to the Presidential Vote Recount” It was posted November 30th, based on research and interviews with Robert Fitrakis, lead lawyer of the Green Party recount effort.
No doubt it required monetary investment and TruthOut.org deserves renumeration, I have no argument with that. But, it is also worth considering that some articles are more important than others. Consider timing. Today we have a newly aroused public, who is under informed and thirty for information.
Palast’s article is of particular civic interest:
* Who imagined that nearly 3 million votes get shelved and ignored in a typical Presidential election? He explains it.
* Issues with verifying that vote counts are accurately transferred from one computer to other tabulating computer? There are some.
* What’s the story behind Trump’s claim of millions of multiple voters? Oh yeah, this on is a wonderful example of creating fiction, because the reality don’t suit one.
* What are “Placebo” Ballots?
*Revelations about the abysmal track record of Mail-In Ballots?
*Who’s making money, or not, off the recount effort?
And so on.
In this time when We The People need to learn how to re-exert ourselves, the wider public has a real need for this sort of education about what's really going on with our elections and voter counts!
Democratic Senators and Representatives and state level Representatives can only stand fast against the coming assault if they have demonstrable grassroots support like never before. How can that happen without an informed aroused electorate?
TruthOut.org does some awesome investigative work, but they need to do a better job of broadcasting it !
America’s democracy demands an informed and engaged citizenry, without that we get showmen and the pawns of the Oligarchs.
Stewing on TruthOut.org’s editor’s refusal to even consider offering terms for allowing me to Repost the entire article at my small internet information kiosk this early morning, I had flashbacks to Ralph Nader’s vainglorious refusal to recognize that he had become the key between Al Gore sitting in the White House or Bush/Cheney and their self-certain, self-obsessed, greed-driven neoconservatives owning the White House. History knows how that worked out for our country, humanity and this planet as it sustains us.
The nightmare of that communal failure to avert guaranteed disaster because of various petty egos and turf battles has inspired, or should I say haunted, me into telling Truthout.org they are wrong and doing so loud and clear.
Why? Because I want to make a point that Truthout.org editors are failing to appreciate their need to do a better job of public education, this is an issue of patriotism in defense of our American system of government as we know it.
I dare say Greg Palast has written a MUST READ article and I choose to defy Truthout.org editors in order to repost and share the entire text of Mr. Palast's valuable article at: http://whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot.com/2016/12/presidential-vote-recount-truthoutorg.html
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PS
December 19th is one very important date.
Electoral College meets.
January 3rd is another one.
Vote and approve Merrick Garland as Supreme Court Justice.
The Democratic Congress will have it’s opportunity to right the grievous constitutional injustice that the Republican Congress has committed against the Supreme Court and the American People.
We really should focus on engaging hundreds of thousands of citizens to petition their Representatives. NOW! We know what’s heading at us. There is no time to waste. FYI: US Congress Contact Info.
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About Greg Palast, he's investigated vote suppression in the 2016 election for Rolling Stone: The GOP's Stealth War Against Voters. The film of his investigation, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, was released by Cinema Libre Studios as a motion picture.
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