Forum Post: It's time to change (series)
Posted 12 years ago on Nov. 18, 2011, 11:01 p.m. EST by genanmer
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Politics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M69LvvIypWM&feature=related
Economy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-bknltXSgE&feature=related
Education: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99pdPhyI6Po&feature=related
War: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCuH3Rr6mME&feature=related
Religion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1c3fBE4P18&feature=related
Poverty: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH6yThp_NRI&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
People: http://dotsub.com/view/d8a29e22-4e90-4a1f-9a0c-d3c894aa5f23
Occupy Elections!
By standing up and speaking against the existence and rise to power of the 1% and the flaws of the present system that allowed such occurrence, the OWS Movement is instinctively demanding the equal distribution of wealth, or the vertical 50-50 where every American family enjoys equal abundance and no upper class and lower class exist, a social calibration which can only be done when the People takes State power and State has assumed complete control of the economy by taking possession and management of the nation’s means of production. In other words, by establishing a Socialist order, and, by corollary, abolishing the existing capitalist structure—a radical and total transformation of the American System, which is clearly not and cannot possibly be in the agenda of either Democratic or the Republican platform, both parties being fundamentally ideologically anti-socialist.
So long as the Movement recognizes and maintains the establishment of Socialism in America as its ultimate goal, participation in Elections 2012, which promises virtually nothing but the mere continuation of the very system the Movement wishes to dismantle, is not only self-contradictory but an outright admission of defeat.
Thus, the call Occupy Elections! As a political action, its passive expression would be in the shape of boycott and the tearing and throwing in the air of the voting franchise. The more aggressive expression would be the disruption of the whole electoral process with the purpose of rendering it invalid. If we, the Movement, are not ready to do this, then we should disband now, go home, and declare this whole thing a mere baby-cry.
The Movement simply cannot participate. Elections 2012 is the Damoclean sword of our spiritual suicide. We do not want to have anything to do with it other than to expose its hypocrisy and vanity.
'slow and steady wins the race' The outcome from the National General Assembly in Philadelphia in JULY will make everyone running for office in 2012 aware that the game is changing. It's a beautiful thing. Nothing radical required.
https://sites.google.com/site/the99percentdeclaration/