While there's all this talk in the air of civil war/revolution, I'm of the school of thought that we must give the ‘10 elections our best shot.
The problem here is insuring that they (1)actually come off as scheduled; and (2) are reasonably fair and accurate.
Ways MUST be found to insure the integrity of our votes, and of the election itself. What, with ACORN, aided and abetted by SEIU and other unionized thug entities, doing it's dirty work on unprecedented levels, the Obama folks bring in Hugo Chavez's voting machines, an unrepentant and relentless press machine constantly covering and apologizing for the nascent fascists, we have our work cut out for us.
I repeat - ways must be found to handle these things, and the best way, I feel, is to blunt them as quickly as possible whenever something about them hits the public waves. But in a deeper sense, we must also wage these battles behind the lines where they aren't widely known to the public, and where most of the really bad stuff is getting done. Put another way, we need our own version of deep cover and PsyOps to tackle this stuff successfully.
Like I say, this probably demands - indeed, requires - a thread of it's own, but it's something we have to do, and work on it should commence immediately, if not sooner.
That's just the way I see things.
CA....
What has saved us so far from Chavez tactics being used to rig voting machines is the great size of America and the decentralized way that elections are run by thousands of counties across America. We also have a large and fragmented news media that would be very difficult for any dictatorial government to effectively control. An attempt to rig the 2010 elections on a large scale would be an all-in riverboat gamble by the democrats, and it would very likely fail and cause fatal damage to the democrat party when the story got out to the American people. Instead the dems will probably stick to targeted fraud in certain areas where its easier to do and in very close elections where fraud can make the difference between winning and losing. Notice how even with some democrat-run fraud in New Jersey and Virginia, the Republican candidates still won big victories in those two governors races.
It may become evident in 2010 that free elections no longer exist (due to ACORN, SIEU, Soros, etc.).
I hear your point of view clearly, but this has been going on for years and when do we simply cut off these vain attempts and realize the system is too far gone, too corrupt for voting to work any longer? We’ve been trying the ballot box. At some point when our rights are stomped on it is no longer a mistake or just differing opinions about how to run the country, it becomes clearly a takeover of our liberties, our freedoms, and this country and must be met with force. The first amendment gives us the right to petition the government, to speak out, but when that government refuses to listen then we were given the second amendment to enforce our rights, our liberties, and our voice. We don’t have to ask pretty please or beg, of which we have done for years. We have the right and the force to simply demand, and demanding a right that is being taken away by force of government is not unreasonable.