Ebbie - What you suggest is not only possibe, it is becoming more and more probable all the time. I can plainly see, from the vantage point of my own country Canada, a society to the south of me that is being transformed bit by bit into George Orwell's "1984" nightmare. This is being done through "manufactured consent", which is accomplished by having a centrally-controlled media that feeds people information and entertainment deliberately calculated to brainwash them into supporting a centralized dictatorship. They are deluded into imagining all sorts of outside threats (most of which are completely unreal) and supporting wars against those supposed threats, when it is really their government that is the aggressor. They are further deluded into policing each other in the homeland through heightened paranoia, so that they can eventually be used as the government's agents to inform on and police their own neighbours (those who express unconventional views about anything.) The intention is to create a dictatorship over a people by convincing them that they are "free" and by making them their OWN jailers.

It's blatantly obvious when seen from the outside, but not so obvious to most Americans when they are living in the middle of it.

This is basically what the Nazis did with the German people in 1933-45. They achieved manufactured consent (and fervent patriotism) through a combination of similar tactics. They invented fictional enemies to fear and obsess about. They arranged for (or simply took advantage of) a terrorist attack (on the Reichstag) to cement their political control. They convinced the population that it was defending its own security, and most people went right along with it.

But...the Nazis did not have computers. They did not have the ability to electronically forge a vote, to digitally alter a visual image, to alter any visible reality with the push of a computer key and then televise it the way they wanted people to see it!

Your present leaders do have those abilities.

As they digitize the recording of votes the last vestige of protection and accountability you have as American voters is gone.

And don't think they won't do that the minute they think it's necessary to in order to maintain power. They will. And they probably have already.

It's all still paper ballots in Canada.

We are heading for one of 2 things now, and I'm not kidding:

1. A new American revolution in the next 4-10 years to set yourselves free again.

Or......

2. A world war within the next 4-15 years, and it will be the Axis of USA/England/Israel/Australia (basically the Anglos) against an expanding alliance of countries eventually composed of most of the rest of the World. The blame FOR that war will be on the Anglos & Israel, and they will be seen in its wake much as the Nazis were seen in the wake of WWII.

Given the fact that Canada is also Anglo, and will probably get sucked in, and that I am Anglo, I don't feel good about it at all. It's a very, very bad situation.