Day 5205: Al Gore is still President of the United States.
I don't take Democracy as lightly as conservatives, who generally love the word and abhor the concept. When it is practiced, it works. When it is subverted and corrupted, it does not, and descends back into all the other horrible forms of government that mankind has slowly, painfully worked its way through.
Al Gore won the 2000 Presidential election; that is a fact. A conspiracy of powerful figures with absolutely no use for Democracy used criminal methods to seat in his place a man who is inarguably the worst president the United States has ever had just by the numbers alone.
Antonin Scalia mocks people like me. "Get over it," says the Robed Murderer. Republicans I have known have said 'you'll never get those votes back', and they will shrug, as if to say: nothing anyone can do.
But that particular subversion of democracy has set us on this dystopian and difficult path. Humanity has suffered for it, is still suffering. That awful day, December 11th, 2000, was the end of my ability to forgive conservative ideology for its genocidal/suicidal leering madness. I could always talk to Republicans before that day; I worked with them, had them in my family, was even friends with a few.
Cheaters. Liars. Cheerleaders of the Apocalypse. Murderers. Conspirators. Fiends. Anti-Americans. These are the words that flow from me now in describing my fellow conservative 'Americans' who clearly have no respect at all for that which I most revere: Democracy. I revere it because I am an American, and because it is logical, and because it is moral.
Al Gore is still the President of the United States. He will be president until he is allowed to serve.
"The decision in the Florida election case may be ranked as the single most corrupt decision in Supreme Court history, because it is the only one that I know of where the majority justices decided as they did because of the personal identity and political affiliation of the litigants. This was cheating, and a violation of the judicial oath."
-- Harvard University law professor Alan Dershowitz
Democracy gave us this:
Conservative criminality gave us this:
