With approximately half of voters voting for Romney, according to certain polls (however much they can be trusted), I'm thinking how can people with a modicum of intelligence continuously be persuaded to vote against their own interest? (not that Barack "NDAA" Obama is really any better)
Right now Romney's Bain Vulture Capital is "salvaging" a company in Freeport, Illinois, firing those workers, destroying their pensions, and sending the whole operation overseas to China, all awhile Romney is employing the rhetoric of bringing jobs back to America. Chris Hedges is right, America has become a theme park inhabited by mindless, infantilized zombies with Las Vegas, with everything it represents, as its cultural capitol.
Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle by Chris Hedges
WAKE THE FUCK UP AMERICA.
Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/12q6wu/2012_voting_machine_altering_votes/
I'm the guy who shot the video, hopefully this doesn't get burried. You guys have questions, I have answers.
My wife and I went to the voting booths this morning before work. There were 4 older ladies running the show and 3 voting booths that are similar to a science fair project in how they fold up. They had an oval VOTE logo on top center and a cartridge slot on the left that the volunteers used to start your ballot.
I initially selected Obama but Romney was highlighted. I assumed it was being picky so I deselected Romney and tried Obama again, this time more carefully, and still got Romney. Being a software developer, I immediately went into troubleshoot mode. I first thought the calibration was off and tried selecting Jill Stein to actually highlight Obama. Nope. Jill Stein was selected just fine. Next I deselected her and started at the top of Romney's name and started tapping very closely together to find the 'active areas'. From the top of Romney's button down to the bottom of the black checkbox beside Obama's name was all active for Romney. From the bottom of that same checkbox to the bottom of the Obama button (basically a small white sliver) is what let me choose Obama. Stein's button was fine. All other buttons worked fine.
I asked the voters on either side of me if they had any problems and they reported they did not. I then called over a volunteer to have a look at it. She him hawed for a bit then calmly said "It's nothing to worry about, everything will be OK." and went back to what she was doing. I then recorded this video.
EDIT: There is a lot of speculation that the footage is edited. I'm not a video guy, but if it's possible to prove whether a video has been altered or not, I will GLADLY provide the raw footage to anyone who is willing to do so. The jumping frames are a result of the #ty camera app on my Android phone, nothing more.
See Also: http://philosophersbunker.blogspot.com/2012/02/numbing-out-of-america-public-apathy.html
“The words consent of the governed have become an empty phrase. Our textbooks on political science and economics are obsolete. Our nation has been hijacked by oligarchs, corporations, and a narrow, selfish, political, and economic elite, a small and privileged group that governs, and often steals, on behalf of moneyed interests. This elite, in the name of patriotism and democracy, in the name of all the values that were once part of the American system and defined the Protestant work ethic, has systematically destroyed our manufacturing sector, looted the treasury, corrupted our democracy, and trashed the financial system. During this plundering we remained passive, mesmerized by the enticing shadows on the wall, assured our tickets to success, prosperity, and happiness were waiting around the corner.”
― Chris Hedges, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
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