This election boils down to one thing: whether or not we still have a democracy. There has never before been a more critical need to show the world the renouncement of every single policy of the current administration
If the Democrats do not win, and win convincingly, it will be because our votes were not counted.
That is what this election is about. No more, no less.
The mainsteam media would like us to believe things are as they always have been; that this is just another election, albeit an important one. But to see stories of Katrina, falsified information leading to pre-emptive devasting war, un-Godly alliances with men of apocalyptic vision aching for war with Iran, dismissals of whistleblowers, the chill of provisions slipped into bills - always eroding our rights-, the imperial president believing he is taking his orders from God when God is really Cheney. . . .to see these stories always, always taking a back seat to scandalous stories of sex and murder, is to see a country edging ever closer to Sinclair Lewis' and George Orwell's prescient visions.
Should the Republicans maintain control of even The Senate, the US will officially no longer be seen as a democracy throughout the world. And that still matters. And if we do not then, as a people, take to the streets to demand recounts . . . if we remain silent, as in the past two presidential elections we will be declaring to the world that we not only deserve, but accept, the government we have. It's that simple.