Forum Post: No Incumbents 2012
Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 4, 2011, 9:33 p.m. EST by victory99
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The title above should be the USA wide goal of all occupiers. NO incumbents 2012 on signs will get congress to "begin" to listen. They are the root of our problems. Wall Street is just the symptom of unmitigated greed turned loose by congress not regulating them sufficiently.
This is what the masses seem unable to grasp:
If we replace our current leaders with human beings, they will sell out just as far as the current bunch. Our leaders weren't born sold out. Wall Street executives weren't born evil. They were born human. With a natural instinct to gather and store for survival. A natural instinct to care for family and community.
When modern society was formed, we began to sell out our natural instincts. Survival turned into survival with a little more elbow room. Then survival with a little more elbow room and a nice view. Then survival with a little more elbow room, a nice view, and something pretty to hang around our neck.
Fast forward a few thousand years. With the industrial revolution came mechanized transportation, air conditioning, and television.
We had become somewhat spoiled. Somewhat motivated. Still relatively down to Earth. Still modest enough to appreciate one another, care for one another, and work towards a common goal.
Along the way, the potential for increased personal wealth became more and more intoxicating. Now, just about everyone wants to be rich. They want it so badly, they are willing to sell out basic morality to attain it. They WILL sell out basic morality if given the opportunity.
How can I be so sure? That's easy. Human nature plus years of corrupt influence plus opportunity.
Mother Nature did not plan for modern society. She did not plan on such corrupt influence. She never intended for any of us to seek or attain extreme personal wealth. We simply can not process the concept without being corrupted by it. Without compromising basic morality.
Extreme wealth is the single greatest corrupt influence of modern society. With every 'zero' on the paycheck, our basic instincts to care for family and community are compromised.
Not only is the greatest concentration of wealth in world history the single greatest underlying cause for economic instability. The very concept of extreme personal wealth is the most corrupt influence in the history of mankind.
There will be no government "of the people" and "for the people". Never again.
ModestCapitalist wrote: This is what the masses seem unable to grasp:
If we replace our current leaders with human beings, they will sell out just as far as the current bunch. Our leaders weren't born sold out.END----
That is "all or nothing thinking" and, most are missing aspects of the equation used behind such logic. I understand the position, but would point out the nihilism in it.-----
I'll base this in a simple fact. We are discussing behavior here. I assert that behaviors are largely controlled by the unconscious mind. Oops' we don't know anything about that. Such a fact does NOT make the reality of what controls each of our mental existence, go away.-----
We had a president that talked about that in a very different way.--
http://algoxy.com/psych/audio/jfk_secrecy.mp3
This factor really cannot be left out any longer. All efforts will be a waste of time without it.-----
Protest really needs to focus on what we don't know about these behaviors that cannot be explained by anything other than rampant greed and corruption existing where it cannot legally, which is just as deficient.
If God himself gave you the power to end poverty, bring about world peace, and take a bonus of $100,000,000 for yourself, would you do it?
If God himself gave you the power to end poverty, bring about world peace, OR take a bonus of $100,000,000 for yourself, which would you choose?
Good scam for getting nominations for "God" ModestCapitalist. The former of course. Who would want others to be without, and then seek to take what you've kept for yourself.----
Please help propose amendments for the constitution with these language skills:) -
I don't believe in God. Otherwise, I would drop this immediately and pray.
Hahaaaaaaaa, okay it's my next act then.
Congress is very afraid of article 5.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_to_propose_amendments_to_the_United_States_Constitution "Congress acted preemptively to propose the amendments instead. At least four amendments (the Seventeenth, Twenty-First, Twenty-Second, and Twenty-Fifth Amendments) have been identified as being proposed by Congress at least partly in response to the threat of an Article V convention."--
Lessig power point on article V http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gpbfY-atMk
aren't slogans and labels great?
yes - lets get rid of Bernie Sanders and Sherrod Brown.
"ALL" and "NO" are substitutes for thinking