Forum Post: Let's make Occupy! the new ruling party in the U.S. and the World! Vote all leaders and elected officials out of office who voted for BANK BAIL OUTS!
Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 3, 2011, 4:46 a.m. EST by FedWallFedWellFedUP
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Let's make Occupy! the new ruling party in the U.S. and the World! Vote all leaders and elected officials out of office who voted for BANK BAIL OUTS!
I'm afraid you are way behind the eight ball here. Those bailouts were done two years ago. Where were you then?
As for your new political party, you're going to have to convince an awful lot of us skeptics out here that you aren't just nuts, or trying to destroy the country to implement some foreign socioeconomic nightmare on us. Given a lot of the posts I've read on this site, you have your work cut out for you.
Good luck.
And who appointed and approved Ben Bernanke and Timothy Geithner as Chairman of the Federal Reserve and Secretary of the U.S. Treasury.
How about let's not vote & shut down the corrupt govt:
Principled Nonvoting: The Beginning of Disengaging From the State
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The fact that we are allowed to choose our dictators doesn’t make us any freer. It merely gives voters the feeling of power and the illusion of control. All the while they are being manipulated into supporting a government that implements policies detrimental to their well being.
What better way is there to get people to follow the law and pay taxes than to convince them that these things are their will? What better way is there to get people to tolerate the government’s evils than by convincing them that the situation is temporary and that they can change the government at the next election? What better way is there to get people to respect elected officials than to convince them that they, the people, chose these scoundrels to represent them? (A mandate, it’s called.) None of these things are true, but the fraud works.
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http://theinternationallibertarian.blogspot.com/2010/09/principled-nonvoting-beginning-of.html
I agree with you about not choosing dictators (it's called voting for the Lesser Evil), and I remember a comment by a member of the Socialist Workers Party: "The Democratic Party has been the graveyard of every progressive movement in the 20th century (and now it's also the 21st century).
But I also think that the demand of the now defunct SWP (for all realistic purposes) and other groups, like Socialist Action, for a workers party, a labor party, based on the interests of the 99%, would help educate and mobilize people in their own self-interest, as opposed to passively voting for the 1%, and would potentially win important reforms.
amen. I've been doing that, since Tea Party first called for it.
amen, amen
Awesome. First battle: close your bank account. They lose!