Comment #12: Frosted Flake
All this because of two small factors, which, in truth, are one.
1/ There is an election around the corner.
2/ We ain't gonna let them steal it.

All seems too simplistic of an analysis to defeating this problem. Yes, we have identified the problem, most of the source, have verified instances where this problem has occurred, and yet we have to initiate a logical response other than, "Take back the House." However, what good is the chanting of the motto, if the process toward completion IS where the problem manifests itself?

QUESTION:
What does it make a nation of people that have entrusted to a few men, the privilege of ruling and running the law of the land, when that privileged position of Office is protected by the largest military the world has ever seen?

Until We The People can coalesce around this foundation OF our Liberties and Freedoms, we shall be doomed by the constraints of this ever growing Oligarchy. That this seemingly most simple concept, our right to vote, shall perish due to inaction of the people. That without unifying behind this most sacred Democratic principle, the purple fingers of Afghanistan and Iraq and the symbolism they have come to mean to the NeoCons and the GOP; The SPREADING of Democracy, will be seen as remnants of not a distant Dictatorial Autocracy, but instead their future stained with the Despotic Authoritarian Corporatism thrust upon them by the good 'ole Uninformed Sheeple of America. After all, what good is the SPREADING of Democracy when the people's Democratic voice is silenced, either by force or by dollar?

Words of wisdom - words of poetic, yet hopeful, pathos.

The Declaration of Independence says, in part:

"....We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new guards for their future security -- Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. -- The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world...."

It is the right of every American citizen to not only voice his/her dissent, but his/her right to cast off a government "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new guards for their future security --"

We can only hope that each and every American will become emboldened by his/her "inborn" privilege to secure the democracy of this country by activation and boldly committing himself/herself to our country.

There's an old cliche, which I'm sure you all know, "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." Let us hope that all Americans wake up before there is no "water to drink!"