Clinton's loss in the GE was all her fault

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58. the election (as Greg Palast has shown) was stolen by massive GOP voter disqualification ...

and now the mainstream media and the reliable astroturf roots of US politics are dancing around the issue. Even the recount effort and discussion only barely glances on the subject, and then only if you dig deep

see for starters: https://soundcloud.com/davidcnswanson/talk-nation-radio-greg-palast-on-stripping-7-million-voters-from-rolls-swinging-election

everybody is so busy getting with the program that this issue has been and is being swept under the rug

the privilegedness of hate in our society is shown in how Donald Trump simply claims baselessly that the election would be stolen and then baselessly claims that millions of illegitimate (presumably Democratic) votes were cast when in fact millions of legitimate votes were systematically disqualified and are not -- as they properly must be; but no one points out in a massive & public way how this inverts the actual truth. The only way to have honest elections under conditions of multiple programs like "CrossCheck" (exposed along w/other simultaneous operations by Palast back in August) is for EACH AND EVERY disqualified vote to be accountably reviewed, carefully to determine whether an estimate 7 million votes nationally and hundreds of thousands in the three key states (areas where the disqualification process was intense, given that they were swing states where the GOP exercised state power) were in fact even mostly disqualified properly

if the past is any record, only a tiny fraction of such GOP-disqualified votes are really illegitimate, but the issue as usual gets swept under the rug (as it was in 2000 and 2004). it's just "one of those things" and hardly talked about other than as some tin-foil hat concern if at all

the problem is that the only functioning aspect of the system is the one that maintains strict repression of effective progressive politics and the laundering/justification of such repression (justifying the lying)

There were also many serious errors (or "errors&quot by the HRC campaign, like spending time and money in AZ, UT, GA etc that should have OBVIOUSLY AT THE TIME been better spent in the key states needed to win. Along these lines, Rep Clyburn and others were in a chorus urging a much greater GOTV effort in these states (there were key senate races in both WI and PA, as well as NC, among the swing states) rather than wasting millions on TV and other frills. Also, these mass disqualification efforts, as in 2000, should have at least been introductorily brought into court before the election, to at least demand a truly accountable review of each and every such vote -- as in 2000.

Meanwhile there are huge issues in the campaign about the MSM, not to forget Comey and other gross twists of proper process (how a real pluralist democracy would function, even an 'imperfect' one). But the point is that the problems continue RIGHT NOW, and will continue into the future, as both the processes and mainstream cravenness in the face of them are likely to intensify.

Meanwhile, the climate careens to and into runaway global warming and the inevitable hand-wringing and the "we didn't know" BS that will just as inevitably follow