Forum Post: It's time to create the Working People's Party
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 14, 2011, 5:51 p.m. EST by WorkingPeopleParty
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It's the time to break the two-party system and create the Working People's Party, a party that will fight for the rights of all people who work for a wage, a party of the Working People.
Of course not only people who are employed and earning a wage will be members of the party:
The party will be open to the unemployed working people, those who lost their jobs and are looking for a new one.
The party will be open to the retired working people, who worked for a wage during their entire lives.
The party will be open to the students who are sons and daughters of working people, and that will probably have to work for a wage in the future, just like their parents.
It's time to Working People organize in its own party, and break with the two parties that only defend the interests of the corporations and the rich.
The party already exists, though it is called the Workers World Party, not the Working People party.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers_World_Party
It is the birthplace of the A.N.S.W.E.R Coalition which is sponsoring many of the OWS marches, especially in California.
Okay I think that the occupy protests across the nation need to all put forth their selection for someone to run for office and drum up the enthusiasm to vote for that person.
All of you guys out there protesting, look around and think, who represents us the best, who is the most ethical, the hardest working, etc.
In Britain, they have a Labour Party.
In Australia, they have a Labour Party.
In Brazil they have a Workers' Party.
We can have a Working People's Party in the US.
But this party here must have more stricter principles, especially regarding the receipt of donations, to avoid being bought by corporations.
So, this is the idea...
Share the idea if you like it.
Hi everyone...
I think the only stipulation necessary is that money be separated from politics/elections etc. OBviously the government has to manage the finances of the country, but what we have is millionaires in office. How do they represent me? I am so far below the poverty level it's laughable.
It is extremely hard/nearly impossible for most anyone to maintain their integrity when huge sums of money are floating around. Even I probably couldn't do it. The only way to keep people honest is that money has NO BEARING on taking office. No more millions of dollars spent on campaigns, the networks should offer free airtime.
No donations to campaigns. Imagine what this country could do with all the millions of dollars spent on political commercials and other superficial bullshit?
REAL PEOPLE IN OFFICE-- please help me figure out how to get real, honest, working people in office, middle class people, and how to make sure that huge sums of money never cloud their senses...
Well, those are goals of the future Working People's Party as well, as I propose it here.
Money be separated from politics/elections - if we can't have a law that makes illegal the donations from corporations to political parties and candidates, we can at least create our own party, with a fundamental principle of not accepting donations from the corporations and big companies.
REAL PEOPLE IN OFFICE - The Working People's Party should present candidates in the elections who are part of the Working People. Our candidates must be nurses, teachers, librarians, firefighters, airline pilots, boilermakers, electricians, computer programmers and other working people.
The main principle of the Working People's Party should be: "We never accept donations from corporations and big companies"
apparently I am the only one that agrees, forget all the intellectual bullshit the simple fact remains that when the working opressed reach below poverty levels like now there is a revolution, check out cause and effect for the French revolution, The Russian revolution, and numerous others through history
Well, I don't know if it's the case for a revolution. The idea is to build a party that can fight for the rights of all working people, through social mobilization, participation in protests and rallies, support for strikes, and also presenting candidates from the working people in the elections, not "professional politicians", but regular people who work for a wage.
apparently I am the only one that agrees, forget all the intellectual bullshit the simple fact remains that when the working opressed reach below poverty levels like now there is a revolution, check out cause and effect for the French revolution, The Russian revolution, and numerous others through history
That's just a History lesson in which the revolutionary masses are subdued and tamed by a tyrannical dictator. The Reign of Terror for the French, and Communism under Stalin for the Russians.
We really should break from parties altogether. George Washington warned us against them in his farewell address:
"They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation, the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels, and modified by mutual interests."
All politics have groups. You can call the groups by any name: "party", "league", "association". The name is not important. But there will always exist different groups in politics.
They won't always exist.
Anyone with truly independent principles will realize the limitations of the party system. It creates barriers on beliefs.
For example, I'm economically very left, but socially quite conservative in some areas only. I believe we should place regulations on businesses, and take that same insight into our lives: I think we should place regulations on things like abortion.
I could have registered as a Democrat or a Republican (or Green-Rainbow, or Libertarian) but I understand that no party could possibly represent me as an individual with my own unique set of beliefs. I believe registering with a party corrupts one's own principles.
Being a member of a political party doesn't mean you have to agree with everything in the party's political platform.
Well, in Libya they didn't have any political parties. Gaddafi was the perpetual ruler, and there was no need for political parties.
There is never a NEED for political parties. We rally ourselves in groups out of fear that we may stand alone.
People naturally tend to reunite in groups to defend their political beliefs. If you don't want to call those groups "parties", I don't care, you may call it "leagues" or "societies", but the effect is the same.
(I'm replying to your last post because the reply button seems to have taken a vacation on that one)
We do belong to something bigger, I agree. But that thing is not political parties. I find those things diversionary and contrary to the social growth of our people. They create unnecessarily militant opinions in people, a kind of "US or THEM" mentality.
The point of the political party is to disenfranchise the individual and to make finding and experiencing your political opinions unnecessary, as they have been handed to you by the party itself. Therefore, you never truly question "why do I believe this?" That's why it's so easy to find communities that are Red and communities that are Blue. They are deindividualized.
I'm saying we shouldn't unite under "leagues' or "societies" or the rose by any other name. We need each to learn to stand as an individual.
I disagree. We were not even born on an individual basis. We needed two people, a man and a woman, to make us. We needed a doctor and nurses to assist our birth. Individuals are part of something bigger.
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 10% Management System of Business & Government, there's only one way to do it – by fighting bankers as bankers ourselves; 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_strategic_legal_policy_organizational_operational_structures_tactical_investment_procedures
Join
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/StrategicInternationalSystems/
because we need 100,000 “support clicks” at AmericansElect.org to support a Presidential Candidate -- such as any given political opportunist you'd like to draft -- in support of the above bank-focused platform.
Most importantly, remember, as cited in the first link above, that as Bank Owner-Voters in your 1 of 48 "new" Business Investment Groups (or "new" Congressional Committees) you become the "new" Congress replacing the "old" Congress according to your current Occupation & Generation, called a Focused Direct Democracy.
Therefore, any Candidate (or Leader) therein, regardless of party, is a straw man, a puppet; it's the STRATEGY – the sequence of steps – that the people organize themselves under, in Military Internet Formation of their Individual Purchasing & Group Investment Power, that's important. In this, sequence is key.
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 10% Management Group 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 Occupation & Generation.
So please JOIN the 2nd link so we can make our 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 in the 1st link. 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 Occupation & Generation.
What if we don't want to work? I just want free stuff
No problem, it's your option.
But you can't join the party, OK?