Truthout

While Democrats and Progressives focus on getting out the vote every two years come election time, Republicans focus on suppressing the vote every single year, year-round. And less than a month after this last election, Republicans are already looking ahead to 2014 and beyond.

At the end of last year, when he was running for President, Rick Santorum told an Iowa audience that he would drastically reduce federal spending on food stamps.

Good news everyone, after more than thirty years of searching by the news media, Ronald Reagan’s infamous “Welfare Queen” has finally been found. She lives in Bentonville, Arkansas.

One day after his re-election President Obama ordered yet another drone strike in Yemen, killing an alleged al-Qaeda operative. In the process, our nation’s moral standing in the world was further downgraded.

Unsatisfied with his media empire in the UK and Australia and his several media holdings in the United States likeTheWall Street Journal, theNew York Post, and Fox News, Rupert Murdoch wants more. He wants a media monopoly.

On the day after the election, Rush Limbaugh blamed Santa Claus for Mitt Romney’s defeat.

When the people of Greece saw their democratically elected Prime Minister George Papandreou forced out of office in November of 2011 and replaced by an unelected Conservative technocrat, Lucas Papademos, most were unaware of the bigger picture of what was happening all around them.

Every year after Thanksgiving, the nation’s wealthy elite, still fat-bellied from turkey and cornbread stuffing, tune in to their local news outlets and observe what has become an annual tradition of bloodletting and frenzied consumerism.

When the Corporate Elite tells us we need to be afraid of something, they almost always expect to make some money off our fear.

As laid out in the previous article,Anonymous, Karl Rove and the 2012 Election Fix?, it’s possible that Karl Rove used SmartTECH’s servers in Chattanooga, Tennessee, to flip the vote totals in Ohio in 2004 and thus steal the election that year for George W. Bush – and just as possible that he tried to do the same thing this year on Romney’s behalf but was thwarted by the hacktivist group Anonymous.