March 15, 2005

Trust us, we care: The Democrats' postmodernist narrative

By Christopher Chantrill
Remember the stolen gubernatorial election of November 2004 in Washington State?  Seattle blogger Stephan Sharkansky got a look last week at some poll books in Democratic King County.  At the Denny Terrace polling station (a public housing project) the records show that a total of 30 machine—readable provisional ballots were illegally inserted into the AccuVote counting machine.  That is 30 out of 869 ballots cast at the polling station.  How could this happen in squeaky clean progressive Seattle? But that is the whole idea behind the modern Democratic Party.  It fronts the party of patronage and go—along—to—get—along with the scrubbed faces of earnest high—born experts, and nowhere better than in Seattle.  Democrats believe in passing out benefits and pensions to their supporters not because they can but because it is right.  And if we can help the little people, they lecture us, why bother with a few pettifogging...(Read Full Article)