Forum Post: #Occupy American democracy

George Washington: "Let me now take a more comprehensive view, & warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the Spirit of Party, generally." http://home.ptd.net/~aahpat/aandc/gw.htm

"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 enterprizing 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 councils and modefied by mutual interests. However combinations or Associations of the above description may now & then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the Power of the People, & to usurp for themselves the reins of Government; destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.

I have already intimated to you the danger of Parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on Geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, & warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the Spirit of Party, generally."

That Democrats and Republicans are canker ridden pustule oozing social diseases on the body politic of America. Let the die. Help them to die.

Don't prop them up. Abandon them.

Register Independent. Use registration strategically not as a loyalist to any one set of values but as a tool of political free speech. What the First Amendment is all about.Creative application of political free speech is the ONLY way to overcome the massive subversion of America's democracy put into place on the state level by the Democrats and Republicans, in collusion to prevent anyone but their corrupt selves from gaining access to American democracy.

Ballot access rules in the states make it impossible for people with new ideas independent of the two parties to get on the ballot. The two parties will never change this for the better so we need to abandon their model and create a new way of participating in the primary and general elections.

Strategic registration means that, in the primary, you register into whichever party has a candidate who truly reflects and respects your values so tht you can support them early. Conversely, if one of the parties has a strong candidate who scares the shit out of you you can register in that party to vote against that creep in their own primary.

Register INDEPENDENT for the general election. The twp parties fear Independents. Independents are the fastest growing political grouping in America. The Republicans and Democrats cannot predict how we think and they cannot control how we vote. This scares the fuck out of the two dominance parties. It returns the ballot power back to We the People outside the subversive controls put into place the the two parties.

Use ballot Write-In creatively for candidates and issues that can't raise the money to get ballot access. This single tool can effectively neutral all of Wall Street's corrupt money and do so without the need for us to go to the Democrats and Republicans to beg them to respect us.

Often, when I know that none of the candidates will ever reflect or respect my social justice values, I will Write-in a statement of principle like: "End the Drug War". If OWS, on a national level, organized to Write-in "NONE OF THE ABOVE" or simply OWS in one campaign in each state it would change the face of American democracy, forever.