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The stolen elections of 2000 and 2004 should have been enough to cause real change.
But America ignored/denied the problem---That the GOP is actually
STEALING major elections, and doing it repeatedly.
Too many good people who should have known better,
simply could not accept the fact that this level of deceit existed
in their own, supposedly "free" and "representative" political system.
So they went into a "happy-as-a-clam" state of denial.
But that just gave the cheat-system a chance to get more varied and efficient.
And now, in 2016, the system-rigging has become state-of-the-art.
Smart people like Brad Friedman, Greg Palast, Bev Harris
and others, plus numerous statistical-analysis experts were called "conspiracy theorists" or
"sensationalists", or, mostly, were just not covered at all in the media.
Well, those folks turned out to be 100% right all along.
But the trouble is, as time has let this thing evolve, it has grown, like
some kind of alien predator, getting smarter and deadlier as it develops.
So now we have progressed beyond the early-century Karl Rove days into a more complex, nuanced
set of strategies (local suppression/manipulation by various methods, gerrymandering, computer tabulation/switching of votes).
They are doing it. You know it, and I know it.
Now, a whole system is in place that 80% of America is basically, blind to.
Could the GOP have stolen this election already?
I saw it clearly back in 2000, and more so in 2004, when I felt like I was almost alone.
Deeply depressing time, that.
I'm a big fan of Brad Friedman. Would you be too?
I wasn't getting called "conspiracy theorist" by GOPers (who I didn't talk to much), but by
mainstream centrist Democrat-types!!
I've retired since, so I haven't seen many of those folks (I used to see at work) in
a long while.
I wonder if any of 'em have changed their tune.
especially since I loved Bill Hicks humor. 
you all oughta try it.
