Ernest Partridge
The Crisis Papers
Remember “the
They were the basketball team that toured with the Harlem Globetrotters – a team that was beaten and humiliated at every “game,” as they were meant to be…
If the recent presidential election was, as compelling statistical and circumstantial evidence suggests, a fraud perpetrated by three private GOP corporations, and if the media and Democratic Party officials persist in pretending that the election was honest and legitimate, then the Democratic Party has consented to play the role of a permanently powerless political faction in an autocracy masquerading as a democracy…
If so, then the Democratic Party has become “The Washington Generals” of American politics. And American democracy is, for all practical purposes, dead…
Suppose … that the election was stolen, that Kerry in fact would have won an honest and accurate election, but that Bush’s corporate allies in the vote-counting business rigged the totals to give Bush the election. Though very few American citizens were aware of it, Bush’s “victory” was fore-ordained, regardless of the will of the voters. A Kerry victory was ruled out at the pre-election get-go. Bush’s electoral defeat at the polls was as unlikely as Josef Stalin’s.
If all this is so, then consider the current posture of the Democratic Party. Clearly, the Democrats will have opted, either deliberately or naively, to play the role of “The Washington Generals” in the next elections and far into the future. They will never retake power, for the private corporations that count our votes with secret software, in collusion with the Republicans, will never allow a transfer of power. The Democrats will instead serve as “window dressing” for this travesty of “democracy.” “Of course we are a democracy,” the new autocrats will tell the American people and the world, “after all, don’t we have an opposition party? And haven’t the American voters repeatedly preferred us Republicans to the Democrats?”
It gets worse: the Congress and the Departments and Agencies of the Executive, and soon the federal courts as well, are no longer accountable to “we the people of the
If this is the case, then this effective ending of American democracy is being hidden from the American people by a smokescreen of “conventional wisdom” – the unanimous declaration in the corporate media that, despite compelling evidence to the contrary, this election was 100% copasetic and that “the people have spoken.”
And the Democratic Party has disgracefully consented to go along with this charade – to meekly play their part as “The Washington Generals” in the rigged “game” of American politics…
