> Ohio recount- Cuyahoga County ballots pre-sorted
19 December 2004, 17:38
RE: DUmmies - Depleted Uranium? Not in this context. I doubt the author of these comments knows anything about depleted uranium. DUmmies is shorthand for members of the Democratic Underground, imho.
There have been some very significant comments made on this board. The fact that the RNC has mobilized like an army implies that they treat elections like wars. (... all’s fair in love and war?) Some of us DUmmies didn’t know that this was a war. We thought that the point of an election was to determine the truth about public support for an ideological viewpoint. This was naïve. War is about power, not truth. We foolishly treated our opponents as brothers with a different point of view, not as enemy combatants. Reluctantly, but inevitably, we must accept the rules of war as the public discourse. To echoe an old rock tune, "...they decided the shotgun sings the song..."
RE: DUmmies - Depleted Uranium? Not in this context. I doubt the author of these comments knows anything about depleted uranium. DUmmies is shorthand for members of the Democratic Underground, imho.
There have been some very significant comments made on this board. The fact that the RNC has mobilized like an army implies that they treat elections like wars. (... all’s fair in love and war?) Some of us DUmmies didn’t know that this was a war. We thought that the point of an election was to determine the truth about public support for an ideological viewpoint. This was naïve. War is about power, not truth. We foolishly treated our opponents as brothers with a different point of view, not as enemy combatants. Reluctantly, but inevitably, we must accept the rules of war as the public discourse. To echoe an old rock tune, "...they decided the shotgun sings the song..."