I Really Wonder

I really wonder about my fellow citizens.  We are locked in one of the most important elections in the nation's history and don't seem to get it.

In many states voter ID laws are being either overturned, or stayed until after the election.  Voter fraud is happening all right, by those who are yelling fraud the loudest; Republicans.   The latest was a Republican elections official who was caught throwing democratic registration away!   Real American Patriotism there, cheat to win?!

Voters are still "undecided" after billions of dollars of persuasion, three debates and endless speeches.

The Republican candidate for President makes a comment that Syria needs Iran as its pathway to the sea, completely ignoring geography.  No Americans noticed because most Americans know nothing about geography.

In California, an initiative to provide revenue to a deficit ridden budget, which could save education, is in real trouble.  This will mean huge mid-year cuts, but many voters still hold to the folly that "the state has more money".

Governor Romney blithely promises to cut taxes by 20%, raise defense spending by a like amount, AND balance the budget...and most Americans seem to be believing him!

The same old snake oil, "voodoo economics" is being peddled in California and in the nation.  And if you believe recent polls, Americans are buying it.

This is just five years after the economy melted down; after the worst loss of wealth by the middle class EVER!  We all suffered the realization that Wall Street money manipulators have defrauded people out of billions.

And, one of  their own, Mitt Romney Bain Capital manipulator,  is running for President and may win.

There was a classic movie, that was made in the Great Depression.  It was the first mass movie produced in color.  It was called the "Wizard of Oz".

The natives of Oz, were following a wizard, who was no wizard at all, but a fraud; but they followed him anyway; blindly.  He sold himself as a wizard who could cure all ills while doing nothing of the sort, and people still believed him.  They believed  him blindly.

I really wonder if Americans can ever shake themselves and wake up to the fraud of the Republican Tea Party who caused the deficit with two wars, homeland security and Medicare benefits, that were not paid for, and passed a huge tax cut; pivoted and blamed the next President for the damage; and are getting away with it.

That is the part that makes me really wonder if Americans have a clue.