prepare to be hoodwinked

Does anyone remember the 1918 world series? The Chicago white sox players threw the series for a promise of money from a big time New York gambler. After the series the players were put on trial and eight of them received a lifetime ban from professional baseball. The entire nation felt cheated, betrayed......hoodwinked by their heroes in the national pastime. The reason I bring this up is that the country is on the verge of a midterm election and the same type of betrayal looms in the background......the hoodwinking of the American public at large. Polls show the Democrats poised to regain control of the house and/or the senate after this election. Most of my friends are convinced that this is going to happen, a sure thing. My prediction is based on the current government's record of the last 6 years. The republicans have done some criminal things recent history and have slandered opponents with lies and character destructive campaign ads. Imagine politicans attacking the military record of say, John Mc Cain, a veteran and prisoner of war......it's amazing that any thinking person would give any credibilty to such nonsense but the result was Bush winning the primary . It wans't long after that when in Florida a scandeous rigging of the ballot count and wholesale elimination of black voters created a win for the republicans there. The same thing happened four years later in Ohio. This government went to war on a false premise and continues with the waste of human life and resources, all the while continuing to lie to the public about the cost of the bad decisions that led to and keep this war going. It seems to me that the republicans rigging this election is not only possible, it is higly likely. The american people at large do not seem to be capeable of standing up to this kind of unacceptable government and demanding a fair and unsullied election. There is a hope that most people have that the government is honest and has the common people's interests at heart. The platform of the republicans in '2000 was " compassionate conservatism" ....what we have now is a form of festering fascism, the rest of the world knows it and is fearful of it for good reason. A compassionate government doesn't abandon it's poor, it's under-educated,it's un-insured, it's working class or the environment. The claim of 'compassionate conservitism' was and is complete nonsense by this government and this next election will showcase just how little our votes and our voices-even our lives mean to this government. A nation that elects reptiles will most likely be consumed by them.