It's going to come down to this: 50% of eligible Americans either don't vote, or vote their disdain for the "two party system" by not voting. Of the remainder, 45 percent vote Republican, 45 percent go Democrat.
Those that will vote Republican will vote in defense of their leaders, George W. Bush and Richard Cheney. That's a combination of a "loyalty" and "faith" vote -- the two entwined in a right wing, Christian militaristic concept which defies facts and science in favor of a blind religious belief that these guys have God on their side. In Bush's case, in constant communication.
They also believe that their Jesus God gave them America as a haven pending the apocalypse, rapture and the big homecoming. In that they are like the Zionists.
Other GOPers will vote with some sense of an albeit, irrational fiscal policy against Democratic Party tax increases -- despite that fact that the Bush-Cheney cabal have run up the largest deficit in recent memory and are in the process of destroying the working middle class in the U.S.
Some GOPers will simply vpte Republican because they believe that the Democratic Party is the party of excessive government, abortion, homosexuals, weakness on defense, minority ascendancy and is a nest of liberal-radical socialist-minded fools who are in service of the Devil and Darwin. Oh, and Chairman Karl Marx.
Some will vote Republican because the Democratic Party has consistently proven to be in collusion with the same money and social interests as the corporate state of the Republicans. Only the former and the latter two bear any resemblance to sanity.
As for those that will vote Democratic, some will vote in protest of Bush because of his foreign and fiscal disasters. Swing voting independents will also be in that group.
A majority will vote Democratic out of blind party loyalty, lesser Evilism and a hatred of Bush.
No small number will vote Democratic because there is no other sane choice during this election.
There will be those that vote Democratic because they believe that this may be the last chance to stop a Republican Party Dicta torship of the corporate class.
This then is the big fear driven vote. And there is every reason to believe they may well be right.
Fascism is built on a few things:
First: Fear that without dictatorship the bad guys will take over.
Second: that democracy is weak and can't defend the Homeland Security from enemies within and without, known contemporaneously as the "unlawful enemy combatants."
Three: belief – faith in a God directed leader.
Four: military control sufficient to take power and maintain power against the popular insurgency.
The crucial question for this election is how much of this prescription for change or conversely for dictatorship do you believe to be true. That ought to determine how resolute you are in getting out the vote for democracy or, allowing for the possibility of a Rovian Dictatorship of the Republican Party.
The choice is yours, or theirs. It's just that simple!
