LOCAL WINGNUT POST-ELECTION WHINING

Ken O’Brien

Earlier today The O’Zone ran an article titled “RANDOM WINGNUT POST-ELECTION WHINING”.

The article was derived from another site. It addressed itself to a variety of national forums. But the idiocy espoused by them is nonetheless present locally.

As an addendum, The O’Zone posted a video from the “Morning Joe” program featuring David Frum.

Frum, an avowed conservative, with a long and illustrious record as such, made a point that The O’Zone has advocated for almost as long as this blog has existed.

Despite all the insults and vilifications that have been leveled at the O’Zone, we have had to retract only one minor story, a speculation actually.

That related to who had the inside track to become principal of the new Middle/High School.

Having dispensed with that, let’s turn to the insanity of the right wing as it pervades the local blogs.

First and foremost we have the poison provided by Sturbridge selectman Thomas Creamer. We have previously decried the ideological pus perpetuated by this site.

The most recent is his latest post “The Americans among us”.

The post states:

Americans don’t embrace massive bureaucracies, red tape and unaccountability. Americans don’t bypass job interviews in favor food stamp applications. They don’t stand in line for “free” Obama phones, nor do they blink not the first eye as they pass trillions of dollars of debt to their children and grandchildren. Americans don’t seek to divide, nor do they scream “racists” because they have no other argument to offer. Americans don’t toss out grand intentions without thought to the consequence. And they certainly don’t look to the government as their savior. Quite the contrary.  

Americans believe in the individual greatness. They believe in hard work, ingenuity and their own ability to achieve greatness – even if it means they fail a thousand times before reaching their goal. They find the answers instead of fumbling for excuses. Americans believe in the goodness of people and they are their brother’s keeper. They believe in the rule of law, not men.

Americans roll with the punches. They never give up – they never say never. Americans rise to the challenges before them, even when they wonder if there’s any fight left in them. At the end of the day, Americans know what they believe in – and why they believe.

So as the dust settles on the 2012 election, we’ll answer the call to once again throw on the saddle, hop back on the horse and cowboy up. It’s a challenge we’ll accept – and yes, I’m talking to Americans, here. No doubt you know exactly who you are.

Oh, by the way, this post comes from Canada Free Press. Well that’s North America, but, do they vote for President of the United States?

Next we have the Sturbridge Tea Part site. Remember that this was the guy who, when he was informed that The O’Zone had provided a link to his site promised to reciprocate. We finally dropped the link.

His post is titled, “I’m Resigning”.

He says, “I'm Resigning from the Republican party. After having plenty of time over the past 24 hours to think about this, I have decided that I am officially changing my party status back to ‘unenrolled’. I no longer consider myself part of the Republican party.

Like so many I thought this might be the time for the republicans to finally make a difference, but once again we were shown how the republican party, both the national and the state don't care about what the people want.”

In an earlier post titled, “Tea party Thoughts Part 2”, a loyal follower wrote:

I read your letter this morning through my tears which still have not dried from last night, and I think you pretty much hit the nail on the head, except for mentioning one thing; The changing demographics of America.

Most Americans of a "certain age" who grew up in the "Land of the free, home of the brave"  which became the greatest country on the face of the earth, ever, share your views and mine.  However, in addition to the current "entitlement" mentality which has evolved while we weren't looking, a large percentage of our population (soon to outnumber us) did not share that uniquely American experience and those values, and those people contributed heavily towards last night's election results.  I don't know what, if anything we could have done, or could do in the future that will change that.

I do know that the Progressive Movement which has been sweeping our country in recent years, co-opting the Democratic party and also  many Republicans,  started a hundred years ago with their HUNDRED YEAR PLAN which accelerated about thirty or so years ago, and has now come to fruition.  This did not happen overnight. It was a carefully crafted and executed long term plan and it happened while people like you and I were asleep at the wheel, busy with their lives, not paying attention to politics, believing in and trusting our government, confident that the people we elected to represent us could be trusted to do the right thing.  We were wrong- they did not.

So where do we go from here?  Like you, I am trying to figure it out.  While I have only attended Tea Party meetings intermittently, I have worked for the past three years on several freedom related issues such as the Massachusetts 2010 Pandemic bill HR 2028 which if passed as written would have forced all Massachusetts residents to take flu vaccinations, no exceptions medical or otherwise, under penalty of indefinite incarceration for refusal to take the shot, Ron Paul's "audit the fed bill, and several food freedom issues, many of which allowed undue government intrusion into our lives.  I have emailed, written, called and talked myself hoarse to senators, congressmen, friends, strangers and anyone who would listen and I've lost count of the sleepless nights.   I've had some successes and some failures, but I guess what bothers me the most, is that so many people just don't care.

I'm tired and discouraged right now.  As you said in your email, "Change comes from the bottom and works up. I still think that, but evidently not enough others do." and that is what saddens me the most.  I do not know how to deal with this. Some of us care so much, and so many do not care at all and I do not know what to do with that.  I keep remembering a line from a movie I saw many years ago, Called AMERIKA, (yes, spelled with a K, ) starring Chris Kristofferson. It was, if memory serves me correctly, about a communistic style take over of America.  Kristofferson's character said at the end, regarding freedom  " As long as freedom lives in the mind of even one American, it will not die."  I hope he was right.

Thanks for letting me vent.  I figured you will understand.  God bless America.

Sincerely,

Janice Bouche

The same author has another blog titled, “It’s Clear As Mud”.

In his most recent post, “Four More Years”, he says about President Obama:

• Basically he will subvert the Constitution at every turn. 
• First Amendment done. 
• President for life - within two years. 
• Socialized medicine
• New World Order
• Financial collapse
• Class warfare

Finally we have, on a regional basis, a character who calls himself Datechguy.

He is the personification of what Frum and Scarborough talked about. He apparently makes a living off his right wing pontifications which include the most recent, “Pointing out the obvious: we don’t have to sit around and take it”. A good fraction of his posts ask for donations to keep him going. Perhaps The O’Zone should do the same.

by Roxeanne De Luca | November 11th, 2012

Stacy McCain has a great post up about the “bizarre statistical improbabilities” of Obama winning over 99% of the vote in some districts that also have over 100% turnout.

We can complain about voter fraud and sound like a bunch of conspiracy theorists and/or sore losers, or we can prove voter fraud and thwart it in the future.

Let’s talk about thwarting voter fraud.  Indiana has one of those nifty photo-ID laws (which also helps the poor, in that the state gives free photo IDs to those who cannot afford them). Work to get one in your state.  Remember, we swept state legislatures and governorships in 2010, and continued to pick up governorships in 2012.  We have friendly legislatures and friendly executive offices.

If you aren’t able to get “show ID to vote” laws passed, why not try to lobby for the low-tech, tried-and-true purple finger approach?  Sure, it won’t eliminate absentee voter fraud, but people will have to work a lot harder to commit voter fraud if they can only vote once on Election Day.

Troops, those are your marching orders.  Get it done in your states.

Now, the tedium of proving voter fraud.  What you need to do is prove that people who voted do not actually exist, do not live in the district, or are otherwise ineligible to vote (e.g. are not citizens).  Given that over one hundred million people cast ballots in the last election, we need to narrow down a search and to get a, er, um, army of Davids to work through the data. Voter registration (name and address) is public information, as is the number of times a person has voted and in which elections.  Now, if I were trying to steal an election, I wouldn’t bother as much with non-swing states, nor with getting people to the polls for primaries and municipal elections.  I wouldn’t bother with small suburban areas where everyone knows everyone else.

So here’s how to do it: we (yes, dear commenters, want to join in the fun?)  get voter lists from counties, pick off people who are registered Democrats and only voted in the general election, not the primary election.  Then we look at their addresses: does each and every address actually exist?  Is it a residence, or did people register with the address of the local Kroger?  Do you have far too many people all registered at the same address, given the size of the residence? (With this thing called the internet, the USPS site, and Mapquest’s satellite function, we can make short work of this.)  Now for the voters themselves: did anyone dead vote?  If you’re feeling particularly ambitious and have the shoe leather to do so, you can mosey around the district, knock on doors, and ask if the voter lives there.

At the end of it all, you have a spreadsheet showing a lot of legitimate, low-turnout voters.  But you also have a whole pile of people who registered at non-existent addresses, at businesses, who died before the election, or who do not live where they claim they live. (Proving that non-citizens voted is a nightmare.)

Just a thought. Sounds more productive than sitting around and complaining.

Update: (DaTechGuy) I second Roxeanne’s post

Conservatives are entitled to believe what they want. But the facts are that as long as they continue to immerse themselves in bubble of misinformation they will be unable to deal with the challenges of the 21^st century.