NOTE: To anyone who feels that their morale may be damaged by an unvarnished assessment of reality these last eight to twenty-five years may not wish to read any further. Everyone from Polyannas to Coincidence Theorists, please find another thread to soil.

Anyone who would like to converse civilly is most welcome.

NOTE: Neither should this thread be construed as an advocation of giving up or not voting. I will be out in November pulling the lever for Obama and I would hope every other DUer would, as well. And to all those who are working for Obama as I have worked in elections recently passed, thank you for your efforts this time around.

It's like a slow motion car accident unraveling before one's eyes, bodies crumpled and mangled flying out windows at breakneck speed in agonizing detail. Or maybe it's like watching a bad reality show or maybe WWE wrestling again and again and again, one with the same outcome no matter what nonsensical plot twists get us to the preordained ending.

But the outcome is never in doubt, and if we look at what passes for "elections" in Bushie Amerika or Putinist Russia, which are almost identically governed by Inverted Totalitarianism as well as having identically trustworthy "elections", we can see that computerized wholesale Bushie election fraud, which may or may not exist, may not even be necessary whether it exists or not.

I have said it before and I have said it again: What the Bushies have done to our media, our institutions and our National Psyche as expressed in our National Dialogue, is psychologically similar, deeply similar, to what the Nazis did to Germany, and the Stalinists to Russia, as absolute and as irrevocable. At least it is not yet physically dangerous, as per the kinder and gentler methodologies of Bush and Putin's Inverted Totalitarianism as compared to Hitler and Stalin's brand of brutal Classical Totalitarianism.

Does wholesale electronic Bushie electoral fraud exist? Probably. But for the purposes of this discussion, let us assume that which is not 100% proven does not exist and so for the purposes of this discussion, wholesale electronic Bushie electoral fraud does not exist.

Does it even need to? In this nation of drugged-out, TV-zombied-up sheep, of which we are all a part what is essentially a vast artificial marketing scheme which has replaced objective reality, a National Hologram, to borrow Joe Bageant's term for it, do the Bushies even need wholesale election fraud to get their way?

At least a year ago, I knew that McCain would be our next Emperor, probably holding the throne for Jeb, but who knows. American Tyranny is a bit more inclusive than familial monarchies and dictatorships of the past, like the Roman Emperors didn't have to be members of the Caesar family, eventually.

No one can predict the details of the future, only that the Bushie Summer Propaganda Offensive would come in some form, using all the power of The State to advance it's goals.

When the Bushies, probably through Randy Scheunemann, greenlighted Georgia for or perhaps ordered it to begin it's August 2008 "Bushie Bounce" invasion of Georgia, the same way the Israelis coincidentally did the same things for their Bushie Masters in August 2006 in pursuit of the same Bushie electoral goals, they knew their mass psychology.

Instant McCain bounce. Add to it the framing of the National Dialogue through the Bushie M$M as restarting the Cold War, and the certainty of the knee-jerk statistical reaction is frighteningly predictable and accurate.

Six percentage points, plus or minus three, for our next Emperor McCain. This would probably not be the case if the Bushies hadn't long ago bent the media to it's will through corporate consolidation and a dozen other sub-strategies including Bill Parcells "working the ref", and all have been staggeringly successful to the point where the Bushie M$M is now pretty much where all discussions are leveled from the start by using a Bushie Linguistic Frame.

Language is power, any marketer will tell you that, and the Bushies took over the language over two decades without anyone really even raising a voice in protest.

So, it's knotted now. And I believe that, in the current restructuring and Gleichschaltung the Bushies have carried out on our "National Nervous System", every facet of it, it simply is not possible for Obama to GAIN in the polls.

As impossible as it was for whoever Medvedev's opposition patsy, his "Obama", was in our Sister Nation and fellow Inverted Totalitarianism, Putin's Russia, and THEIR "election" (which, if we are assuming no Bushie electoral fraud, then we MUSt also assume no Putinist United Russia electoral fraud and thus Medvedev's "election" victory was indeed 66-33% as advertised) to gain in the polls.

It makes me laugh. Nothing left to do but laugh about it now. The Bushies, in their kinder and gentler way, have us in a grip as absolute as the Nazis has over Germany.

If there are any left who can scoff at this quite reasonable notion in the face of the last eight years, and I have no doubt that even now most will...even NOW, when it is tragically obvious to the point of insulting the intelligence of the few members of the Reality-Based Community left, then just wait until November.

First, the October Surprise is still yet to come, though it may not even be necessary...whatever it is, it will be at least as shocking to the National Nervous System as the Georgian Invasion of Ossetia that was likely instigated by the Bushies for McCain.

Then, the usual boring "Surprise McCain Upset Victory Show" coming a few days later. Boring. I've seen it before and they could at least come up with a new plot.

Can't you see it? Can't you smell it? Doesn't that tingle of deja vu tells you it's coming?

And the sad truth is, it simply doesn't matter what is right and wrong, what is true and what are lies, or how obvious and shameless upfront Bushie villainy is.

At the end of the day, it's going to be a "surprise upset win". Sorry, I don't want that any more than you do. But reality is reality. Don't hate the messenger because reality is what it is.

Just get ready, because in just a few more weeks...eight to be precise, we are all going to be schooled on just how powerless we are to stop the systemic and structural changes the Bushies have wrought to every aspect of our once-free, once proud society. And it doesn't matter who pulls what levers...even if there ISN'T wholesale Bushie manual and electronic election fraud occurring, which probably IS also occurring.

For a few of us realists, this will be no surprise. We knew where this ride was ending (50-1 chance) before it started. That is the way of Totalitarian Nations, and even though ours is the kindest, gentlest, newest, most modern form of it, our Inverted Totalitarianism is still totalitarianism.

All hail Emperor McBush