Yes Yes Yes

In a post about an interesting case of voter fraud, Jim says this:

...but we had best remember that it is the System and our faith in that holds this country together, and that is more important than anything, including which guy gets elected.

It made me want to stand up and shout "exactly!"

The thing that separates the developed nations from the third world, possibly more than any other single thing, is the mutual trust that exists between the citizens and their systems of government. When that trust exists, personal freedoms exist, a constantly changing representative government exists, and the belief in the capacity to change the government for the better exists. When that trust fails, then the government turns to tyranny or falls to revolution.

So, yes, these cases of voter fraud are assaults on that most important trust. Whoever perpetrates the crime, whether conservative or liberal, is attacking the bedrock of our nation.

Posted by zombyboy at October 24, 2004 02:15 PM