Oligarchy in California, Insanity in Washington State

I left the Golden State in 2001 shortly after the passage of Prop 22, which I had supported. The measure, which had defined marriage as between one man and one woman, passed overwhelmingly. The people of California spoke!

With the stroke of the pen of a judge, the measure was ruled invalid, and homosexual marriage is now a part of the California lifestyle.

This November, Californians have a chance to vote again on a similar (identical?) measure, Prop 8, which will most likely pass. The people of California once again will speak.

But who will listen?

A single activist judge, unelected and accountable to no one, will doubtless strike down the measure once again -- proof that we no longer live in a republic but rather an oligarchy.

So, I ask: What's the point in voting?

Here in Washington state, the gubernatorial race of 2004 was mired in controversy and leftist antics. Republican candidate Dino Rossi won the election by a scant hundred or so votes. The Dems cried for a recount and it was granted. Again, Rossi won. The Dems cried louder, and an unprecedented second recount was ordered, and amazingly, Rossi lost the election by the slimmest conceiveable margin of 127 votes.

Benefitting "Governor" Gregoire was the sudden emergence of about a thousand ballots, naturally in ultra-liberal King County, which ran nearly 100% in favor of the person who has been acting as our governor for nearly four years (imagine that!). What the media didn't bother to report was that many of those thousand votes were cast by felons, who are ineligible to vote, illegal aliens, who have no Constitutional right to vote, or persons who are deceased. Apparently Democrats maintain the right to submit ballots from the world beyond.

In a little less than two months, Rossi will have his rematch against the fraud from Olympia. However, the atheist farm system (you know them as the public school system of systematic communist indoctrination, or public schools for short) has been busy cranking out four more years of liberal voters, so the upcoming election will likely be another sham, this time probably by a wider margin, one which will be simply too large for the Republicans to contest. What the Democrats can't win, they will steal. And as we say here in the Pacific Northwest, "count, count, and recount until you win."

So I ask: What's the point in voting?

Since I've grown accustomed to futilely banging my head against walls, I intend to vote anyway.