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With no liberty, there will be sham elections, decided by imaginary voters

Imaginary Voters



Would a woman join an organization whose acronym is AWFUL — Adipose Women Fasting Until Lean? If so, she wouldn’t sport an acronymic bumper sticker. Would anyone join ALIVE — the Associated League of Imaginary Voters Everywhere? How could they, being imaginary?

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Nevertheless, in addition to American voters who are alive, there are countless phantom voters — fictitious figments of fraud fabricators, or resurrected cemetery residents — existing on courthouse rolls, and their ranks are swelling due to the efforts of organizations like ACORN: Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. While “Vote early and vote often” makes some folks snicker, it is a favorite motto of ACORN. Its efforts — coupled with the media’s persistent proselytism, and the pervasive prejudice of pollsters — provided plentiful plebiscitary pickings for the candidate who promised change in the 2008 presidential election, the outcome of which proved that the combined efforts of the media, pollsters, and organizations like ACORN amounted to a fait accompli. Even so, can flesh-and-blood voters retain any faith in the vestigial remains of majority rule? Unlikely, especially since many precincts are equipped with voting machines that sometimes malfunction and sometimes don’t, bringing to mind the 2000 presidential election, when Internet inventor Al Gore blasted out enough hot air to initiate incipient onset global warming after Florida’s vote-count snafu. Too often, American voters, real and imaginary, let their minds be made up for them by television’s talking heads, most of whom vaguely remember objectivity as an old-fashioned, fourth-estate principle taught in journalism school. Given the quality of life Americans enjoy (and may soon regret they took for granted) in comparison with people in countries where liberty is disguised by a “Big-Brother” façade of freedom proportionate to wherever the country’s governing ideology ranks on the socialism to totalitarianism scale, one would think democracy is the best and easiest type of government by which mortals can hope to be governed. It would be, except for the fact that, by its very nature, democracy provides a fecund breeding ground for those bent on corruption. Consider this country’s current crop of corrupt, contemptible congressional criminals. For this mendacious menagerie of political mountebanks, numbering a little over five hundred hoodlums, who hold in their hands the fate of a little over three hundred million people, Mark Twain’s quip is apropos: “There is no distinctly native American criminal class, except Congress.” Registered fictitious folks, felons and foreigners notwithstanding, when this country’s liberty-loving citizens cast their ballots in any election via machines that may or may not work, they must try to strike a blow against those among this iniquitous, inside-the-Beltway brotherhood who promise everybody everything. Americans must send a clear message to these egotistical political power mongers that what they fear most is within the voting public’s power to effect: term limits. If not, what Greek philosopher Plutarch once said may become fact: “…the real destroyer of any people’s liberties is he who promises to spread among them … largesse.” With no liberty, there will be sham elections, decided by imaginary voters.


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Jimmy Reed -- Bio and Archives

Jimmy Reed is an Oxford, Mississippi resident, Ole Miss and Delta State University alumnus, Vietnam Era Army Veteran, former Mississippi Delta cotton farmer and ginner, author, and retired college teacher.

This story is a selection from Jimmy Reed’s latest book, entitled The Jaybird Tales.

Copies, including personalized autographs, can be reserved by notifying the author via email (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)).


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