Novelist Jane Smiley sent in a short but sweet letter to the editor at the NY Times today and, contrary to usual practice, I’ll reproduce it here:
Maybe once was a fluke — the 2000 presidential election — but now it’s beginning to look like a pattern. Representative Tom DeLay is trying to force Texas to gerrymander before the next House election, and the Republicans in the California Legislature are holding Gov. Gray Davis hostage to a recall (news article, July 2).
It looks as if the G.O.P. has decided not to abide by the duly registered wishes of the voters, but to attempt every means to overturn elections that go to Democrats. Are we living in the third world? Is the United Nations going to have to send in election watchers to make sure we have free and fair elections?
Wake up, America! Your government is being stolen right out from under your noses by the right wing. It not only can happen here, it is happening here.
The sentences emphasized with bold are to me one of the key questions about what’s going on these days. The speeches and actions coming out of the GWB posse are such a load of crap that I’m increasingly challenged to understand current poll results. What, I wonder, is so broken with the Democratic Party that they can’t take advantage of such blatant behavior?
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