Forum Post: A few reasons OWS may fail to affect any change...
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 18, 2011, 12:34 a.m. EST by thecenterpath
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1) Disdain for the major parties which are held in power by the structure of majoritarian election rules. If the left party (Democrats) are not challenged in primaries by OWS people who use their people power to do retail politics, then OWS fails.
2) The underlying tenant of the OWS movement, whether anti-constitutional (structural or otherwise), communist, or anarchist, wants fundamental change (revolution). The vast middle will not support this due to a number of reasons (insert false consciousness, socialization, or other reasons). If the OWS movement stays out of politics and continues to hope for mass movement affecting sweeping change, OWS fails.
3) The OWS movement in its effort for revolutionary change has disdain for the incremental change which has won (and lost, see neoliberalism movement since Reagan and TEA party) the vast majority of rights and liberties for the working class and ordinary people through the progressive and civil rights movements. These POLITICAL movements lead to leaders who felt they had the enough political support of the people to push sweeping agendas (FDR, Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson). Change comes and goes incrementally by long fought battles by political participation of large portions of people. If the demonization of the political process and incrementalism prevails, OWS will fail.
Maybe. Yet when the issue is class-- not race or gender-- large-scale overhauls have succeeded; ie the October Revolution and even (sort of) the American Revolution.
Here is something that I think could work, if we can agree on "get money out of politics" :
We have a new political party whose pledge is to #1 amend the constitution to ban lobbying/bribing. #2 resign immediately after. That is kinda extreme though - we'd need a huge majority - but I think may be possible.
I agree that this is one message, which Dylan Ratigan is pursuing, that can be a real 99% message. A constitutional amendment needs an active focused movement.
Start the war against Injustice by starting our own banks to double the income of the Bottom 90% of Workers, for many more people will come to your side when you are proactive (for “new” Business & Government solutions), instead of reactive (against “old” Business & Government solutions), which is why what we most immediately need is a comprehensive “new” strategy that implements all our various socioeconomic demands at the same time, regardless of party, and although I'm all in favor of taking down today's ineffective and inefficient Top 1% Management System of Business & Government, there's only one way to do it – by fighting bankers as bankers ourselves, and thus doubling our income from Bank Profits which are 40% of all Corporate Profits; that is, using a Focused Direct Democracy organized according to our current Occupations & Generations. Consequently, I have posted a 1-page Summary of the Strategically Weighted Policies, Organizational Operating Structures, and Tactical Investment Procedures necessary to do this at:
http://getsatisfaction.com/americanselect/topics/on_strategically_weighted_policies_organizational_operating_structures_tactical_investment_procedures
Join
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/StrategicInternationalSystems/
because we need 100,000 “support clicks” at AmericansElect.org in support of the above bank-focused platform.
Most importantly, remember, as cited in the first link, that as Bank Owner-Voters in your 1 of 48 "new" Business Investment Groups (or "new" Congressional Committees) you become the "new" Congress, and related “new” Businesses, replacing the "old" Congress, and related “old” Businesses, according to your current Occupations & Generations, called a Focused Direct Democracy.
Therefore, any Candidate (or Leader) therein, regardless of party, is a straw man, a puppet, a political opportunist; what's important is the STRATEGY – the sequence of steps – that the people organize themselves under in Military Internet Formation of their Individual Purchasing Power & Group Investment Power. In this, sequence is key, and if the correct mathematical sequence is followed then it results in doubling the income of the Bottom 90% of Workers from today's Bank Profits, which are 40% of all Corporate Profits.
Why? Because there are Natural Social Laws – in mathematical sequence – that are just like Natural Physical Laws, such as the Law of Gravity. You must follow those Natural Social Laws or the result will be Injustice, War, etc.
The FIRST step in Natural Social Law is to CONTROL the Banks as Bank Owner-Voters. If you do not, you will inevitably be UNJUSTLY EXPLOITED by the Top 1% Management System of Business & Government who have a Legitimate Profit Motive, just like you, to do so.
Consequently, you have no choice but to become Candidates (or Leaders) yourselves as Bank Owner-Voters according to your current Occupations & Generations.
So please JOIN the 2nd link, and spread the word to as many as possible, so we can make 100,000 support clicks at AmericansElect.org when called for, at exactly the right time, by an e-mail from that group, in support of the above the bank-focused platform. If so, then you will see and feel how your goals can be accomplished within the above strategy as a “new” Candidate (or Leader) of your current Occupation & Generation.