misophist: I love my Mom (God rest her) & apple pie. As for "attempted genocide", I am sadly constrained to say that the one time the US seriously attempted it, we essentially achieved it: against the Native Americans. Thus slavery is our second-worst national historical sin. // But as for "rigged elections": Bush's was not. I was agin' him and I still am, please understand; and his election was damned unfortunate; and too damn bad that the first "Electoral College Inversion" (going opposite the popular vote) since 1888 produced: Dumbya. But, it was not "rigged". Not even the *smart* Republicans are smart enough, and foresightful enough, to arrange in advance -- or even after the fact -- such a complicated confluence of circumstances. / If you wanna say "stolen" as distinguished from "rigged", I'll dissent somewhat less vigorously. But you can't base the larceny case just on the fact that Uncle Albert won the national popular vote. Constitutionally that is just plain meaningless. Sorry. Get used to it. Or change it. (Good luck with that, btw.) The popular vote does not elect the President any more than it elects the UK-style Prime Minister. We 100+ million voters do not choose the President in November. 538 electors---whom we elected in November, unbeknownst to most of us---do that, in December. The "Inversion" occurs only rarely---3 times in our history so far. Hopefully, not soon again. But when it does---"That's the way it is." (BTW do you think the 1960 election was stolen? Nixon did. And of course HE was "not a crook." :)