Even in this dumbed down parody of America, we can still count votes in one out of three presidential elections, or 33% of our presidential elections in this century.
Our first elected president in the 21th century was black, but look beyound the skin level--in other words, hurray, we actually counted votes in one out of three elections in the 21st century. Americans CAN count, but not necessarily multiply or divide, and they do not USUALLY(2 out of 3), even COUNT votes. They are not counting profit, or they would not have gone so far into neolib neocon pseudo-economics that elections and habeus corpus and free speech became dirty words to them. We can count to two. We counted off two elections where our votes were not counted, without doing anything about it but waiting. So we waited. As chance would have it, a landslide overcame election fraud, almost AS IF we counted votes one out of three. But did we count votes? NOT EXACTLY, and even in numbers as low as ONE, precision and accuracy can play a part. The world can tell if we are serious about counting their votes, if we are NOT serious about counting our votes. If we are serious about counting OUR votes, we still might be racist about counting other people's votes. Pat Robertson, Reverend Robertson, might still throw out all the votes of Indios y Negros in Venezuela, where Robertson would like to vote once, absentee of course, by assassination. Pat is pro-choice, pro Sirhan's choice, Oswald's choice, Osama's choice, Pat's choice. Funny, Pat did not say he was pro-choice, but, he is. How many US pro-democracy wars have resulted in democracy? Women in Afghanistan burn themselves alive with gasoline every year to protest CIA funding of misogynist security guards for opium poppies, since US liberated poppies not women in 2001. Do we see the light? Do we see the burning glare there? Do we know what is is? Can we count past one? Maybe the Afghan women can turn that into a business. Milton Friedman's economics has taught people around me to say,"Maybe you could turn that into a business", when I describe my investment of twenty years to visit 300 people who were murdered, survive 4 murder attempts, 3 kidnappings, help 100 murderers and felons including two CIA assassins to get off the street, so to speak. The Palin kkkristians look at my rezoomay and say, maybe I could disconnect, formulize, sterilize that and sell it. Their problem, thus my problem by consequence, is that good needs a root,"The love of money is the root of all good". Good needs a root. I am a walking dead man, in other words, until I can disconnect, formulize, sterilize, and sell some aspect of my process. Sell the input, the output, the process? I do not want to know, because chopping up and bifurcating would probably fail like Milton Friedman, even with Pinochet and Cheney and Bush and Robertson and Palin and Blackwater and NORTHCOM and all of their failure to count votes in THREE out of three elections. I would like to say good does not need a root, but I already did.
