I'm not sure there's disagreement entirely re the Bush "coup" or whatever. We all--and I suspect this includes most those Americans who didn't vote, too--know very well what happened this year isn't exactly new; the presidency (among other offices) is not decided by us; the question seems to be whether the "choice" we make in the loaded system actually goes anywhere toward being counted or not. Yet I tend to Stew's view there may have been more outright "theft" this time; or maybe folks just got caught with less careful hands in the till, as it were. On another point--Stew, I remember in France 8 months before Allende's overthrow, people (inc. some residents from Chile) were worrying it might happen; and, that September day in 1973 here when I saw the SFChronicle headline "Allende overthrown in Chile," there had been for maybe a week news commentary (re the truckers etc.) that this was coming; I remember the sense of horror, yet not of the unexpected, on seeing those words. --I don't question the persons or media or whatever you saw there weren't expecting it, but how did that happen? Please let me know (off or on list); thanks. Paula
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